''Phebalium canaliculatum'' is a species of erect shrub that is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is more or less covered with silvery and rust-coloured scales and has thin, cylindrical leaves and dark pink to pale mauve flowers in umbels on the ends of branches.

Description

''Phebalium canaliculatum'' is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of and is more or less covered with silvery and rust-coloured scales. The leaves are cylindrical to slightly flattened, about long and wide on a very short petiole. The flowers are dark pink to pale mauve and arranged in sessile umbels on the ends of branchlets, each flower on a pedicel long. The sepals are about long and joined for about half their length, scaly on the outside but glabrous inside. The

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s are elliptical, long and wide, covered with silvery scales on the outside. The filaments of the

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s are pale mauve with a yellow

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. Flowering occurs in May or from July to October.

Taxonomy and naming

This species was first formally described in 1896 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 ...

and Ralph Tate from specimens collected by James Drummond "towards Ularing" during Giles's third expedition. It was given the name ''Eriostemon canaliculatus'' and the description was published in the ''

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''. In 1958, James Hamlyn Willis changed the name to ''Phebalium canaliculatum'', publishing the name change in ''

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''.

Distribution and habitat

''Phebalium canaliculatum'' grows on sandplains and hillslopes, sometimes on rock outcrops, in shrubland or mallee between Wongan Hills, Sandstone and

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Conservation status

''Phebalium canaliculatum'' is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government

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References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q18076550 canaliculatum Flora of Western Australia Plants described in 1896 Taxa named by Ferdinand von Mueller Taxa named by Ralph Tate