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Bursaria lasiophylla

Citation: E. Bennett, Nuytsia 2:192 (1978) var. albicoma E. Bennett, Nuytsia 2:192 (1978).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Shrub to 2.5 m tall; branches hoary when young, becoming glabrous with age; spines occasional, up to 10 mm long, hoary especially at the base; leaves in clusters of 2-4, narrow-lanceolate, 9-30 X 5-10 mm, green above to grey- or white- or golden-hairy below; margins more or less revolute, apex more or less uncinate; mid-vein prominent below.

Inflorescence racemose or paniculate, often hoary, terminal on the branchlets, 10-70 x 5-90 mm; pedicels 1.5-6 ram, sparsely pubescent; sepals narrow-lanceolate, acute, ciliate or glabrous, 1-2 x c. 0.5 ram; petals white, 4-6 x 1-1.5 mm, 3-nerved, glabrous; ovary densely white-hoary, 3-4 mm long.

Capsule densely white-pubescent, pale-brown.

image of FSA1_Bursaria_las.jpg Bursaria lasiophylla twig.
Image source: fig 233a in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
image of FSA1_Bursaria_las2.jpg Bursaria lasiophylla fruit.
Image source: fig 233c in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:    There are 3 other varieties in N.S.W. and Vic.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: Dec. — Feb.


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