''Phebalium tuberculosum'' is a species of erect shrub that is endemic to Western Australia. It has glandular-warty and scaly branchlets and leaves and white flowers arranged in umbels of three or four with rust-coloured scales on the back of the

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Description

''Phebalium tuberculosum'' is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of with glandular-warty branchlets, leaves and sepals. The leaves are oblong with the edges rolled under, appearing more or less cylindrical, and are about long and about wide. The flowers are borne in umbels of three or four, each flower on a thick pedicel long covered with rust-coloured scales. The five sepals are long, joined at the base. The

s are white, broadly elliptical, long and wide, with silvery to rust-coloured scales on the back. Flowering occurs from September to December.

Taxonomy

This species was first formally described in 1862 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 ...

who gave it the name ''Eriostemon tuberculosus'' and published the description the his book ''The Plants Indigenous to the Colony of Victoria''. The following year, George Bentham changed the name to ''Phebalium tuberculosum'', publishing the change in '' Flora Australiensis''.

Distribution and habitat

''Phebalium tuberculosum'' grows on lateritic hills, on granite dunes and plains between Kalbarri, Katanning and Zanthus in Western Australia.

Conservation status

This phebalium is classified as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia

Department of Parks and Wildlife The Department of Parks and Wildlife (DPaW) was the department of the Government of Western Australia responsible for managing lands described in the ''Conservation and Land Management Act 1984'' and implementing the state's conservation and en ...

References

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