Lavender Halgania
Halgania andromedifolia
Halgania andromedifolia commonly known as lavender halgania, is a species of flowering plant in the family Ehretiaceae. It is a small, upright or spreading perennial shrub with blue flowers and grows in New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia and Victoria.
From the article Halgania andromedifolia on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Halgania andromedifolia is an upright, hairy, sparsely branched shrub to 1.3 m (4 ft 3 in) high. The leaves are oblong to narrowly elliptic, 10–25 mm (0.39–0.98 in) long, 2–6 mm (0.079–0.236 in) wide, margins rolled under, upper surface sticky, lower surface whitish, apex blunt and the petiole up to 2 mm (0.079 in) long. The blue flowers are borne at the end of stems in small clusters 10–15 mm (0.39–0.59 in) in diameter, corolla 5–8 mm (0.20–0.31 in) long, petals lance-shaped and hairy on the outside. Flowering occurs from August to November and the fruit is a drupe containing one seed.
Range & habitat
Lavender halgania grows in loam, clay and gravel in New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia and Victoria.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Distribution and habitat”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Halgania andromedifolia in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
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 769920.