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Patersonia maxwellii
Patersonia maxwellii is a perennial herbaceous plant that is endemic to Southwest Australia, occurring in the Jarrah Forest and Esperance Plains regions. The flowers are violet or blue and appear between September and November. The height is 0.2 – 0.3 metres. It is found on white sand in seasonally wet areas. It was first described by Ferdinand von Mueller, placing it in a genus Genosiris, and later transferred to Patersonia by George Bentham. The specific epithet...
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1071887.