Sphaerolobium pulchellum: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Fabales
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Sphaerolobium
- Species
- Sphaerolobium pulchellum
- Scientific Name
- Sphaerolobium pulchellum
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Sphaerolobium pulchellum
Sphaerolobium pulchellum is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a more or less leafless shrub that typically grow to a height of 10–30 mm (0.39–1.18 in) and has pink or purple and yellow flowers in September and October.
Sphaerolobium pulchellum was first formally described in 1855 by Carl Meissner in the journal Botanische Zeitung from specimens collected by James Drummond. The specific epithet (pulchellum) means "beautiful and small".
This grows in sand and gravel on plains in the Geraldton Sandplains and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions of south-western Western Australia and is listed as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
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Sibling Taxa
- Sphaerolobium acanthos
- Sphaerolobium alatum
- Sphaerolobium daviesioides
- Sphaerolobium drummondii
- Sphaerolobium fornicatum
- Sphaerolobium gracile
- Sphaerolobium grandiflorum
- Sphaerolobium hygrophilum
- Sphaerolobium linophyllum
- Sphaerolobium macranthum
- Sphaerolobium medium
- Sphaerolobium minus
- Sphaerolobium nudiflorum
- Sphaerolobium pubescens
- Sphaerolobium pulchellum
- Sphaerolobium racemulosum
- Sphaerolobium rostratum
- Sphaerolobium scabriusculum
- Sphaerolobium validum
- Sphaerolobium vimineum
