''Lechenaultia chlorantha'', commonly known as Kalbarri leschenaultia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to a restricted area near Kalbarri in Western Australia. It is a subshrub or shrub with many branches, crowded, narrow, fleshy leaves and pale bluish-green, tube-shaped flowers.

Description

''Lechenaultia chlorantha'' is an openly-branched subshrub or shrub that typically grows to a height of up to , has many branches and often forms suckers. The leaves are glabrous, crowded, long, narrow and fleshy. The flowers are arranged singly on the ends of branchlets, the sepals long and glabrous. The petals are pale bluish-green, long, the wings on the lower petal lobes triangular, wide, on the upper lobes wide. Flowering occurs from August to September and the fruit is long.

Taxonomy

''Lechenaultia chlorantha'' was first formally described in 1860 by

Ferdinand von Mueller Baron Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller, (german: Müller; 30 June 1825 – 10 October 1896) was a German-Australian physician, geographer, and most notably, a botanist. He was appointed government botanist for the then colony of Vict ...

in '' Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae'' from specimens collected near the Murchison River. The

specific epithet In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...

(''chlorantha'') means "green-flowered".

Distribution and habitat

Kalbarri leschenaultia grows in rocky sandstone near the mouth of the Murchison River at Kalbarri in the Geraldton Sandplains biogeographic region of south-western Western Australia.

Conservation status

This lechenaultia is listed as "vulnerable" under the Australian Government '' Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999'' and as " Threatened Flora (Declared Rare Flora — Extant)" by the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q17480185 chlorantha Garden plants of Australia Plants described in 1860 Taxa named by Ferdinand von Mueller