''Diplolaena andrewsii'', is a species of flowering plant in the family Rutaceae and is endemic to the west coast of Western Australia.

Description

''Diplolaena andrewsii'' is a wide spreading branched shrub to high. The leaves heart to egg-shaped, long, papery, sparsely covered on both sides with star-shaped, coarse, rough hairs, rounded at the apex, on a petiole long. The flowerheads are up to in diameter, outer bracts broadly oval, about long, green, rounded, papery and sparsely covered in star-shaped hairs. The inner bracts are marginally longer than outer bracts, broadly egg-shaped to narrowly oblong, reddish-brown with white edges and smooth on the outer side. The petals are more or less equal in length to inner bracts, smooth or with small hairs. The stamens long with light red hairs on lower half. Flowering occurs from July to September.

Taxonomy

This species was first formally described in 1921 by

Carl Hansen Ostenfeld Carl Emil Hansen Ostenfeld (born Carl Emil Ostenfeld-Hansen) (3 August 1873 – 16 January 1931) was a Danish systematic botanist. He graduated from the University of Copenhagen under professor Eugenius Warming. He was a keeper at the Botan ...

and the description was published in ''Biologiske Meddelelser'', the journal of The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.

Distribution and habitat

This species in found in the

Darling Range The Darling Scarp, also referred to as the Darling Range or Darling Ranges, is a low escarpment running north–south to the east of the Swan Coastal Plain and Perth, Western Australia. The escarpment extends generally north of Bindoon, to th ...

near Perth, Western Australia growing in granite rocks in woodland.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q15390719 Sapindales of Australia Rosids of Western Australia Plants described in 1921 Taxa named by Carl Hansen Ostenfeld Zanthoxyloideae