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Darwinia virescens
Darwinia virescens, commonly known as Murchison darwinia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae and is endemic to a small area on the west coast of Western Australia near Geraldton. It is a prostrate or low-lying shrub with crowded linear leaves and dense, hemispherical heads of green, yellow or red flowers.
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Description
Darwinia virescens prostrate or low-growing shrub that typically grows to height of 5–30 cm (2.0–11.8 in) and has both short, and thick, white bark. Its leaves are linear, round or triangular in cross-section, and mostly 6–8.5 mm (0.24–0.33 in) long. The flowers are green, yellow or red and arranged in dense, hemispherical heads more than 25 mm (0.98 in) in diameter, surrounded many lance-shaped involucral bracts that are shorter than the flowers. Each flower is on a thick, top-shaped pedicel. The sepals are about 8.5 mm (0.33 in) long, joined at the base to form a tube with 5 longitudinal ribs, the lobes about 1 mm (0.039 in) long, the petals nearly 4 mm (0.16 in) long. Flowering occurs from August to December.
Range & habitat
Murchison Darwinia grows in sandy heath in the Geraldton Sandplains and Yalgoo biogeographic regions of Western Australia.
Wikipedia: “Distribution and habitat”
What it does
The flowers of Darwinia virescens (and of Darwinia sanguinea) are held at ground level and there is speculation that this suggests that they are pollinated by mammals.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Ecology”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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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 804804.