Lawrencia densiflora

Lawrencia densiflora is a species of plant in the mallow family, Malvaceae. It is endemic to Western Australia^[1][4]

Lawrencia densiflora
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Malvales
Family:	Malvaceae
Genus:	Lawrencia
Species:	L. densiflora
Binomial name
Lawrencia densiflora (Baker f.) Melville[1][2]
Occurrence data from AVH
Synonyms[3]
Plagianthus densiflorus Baker f.

Description

L. densiflora is a perennial shrub/herb, growing to a height from 0.07 to 0.6 m.^[1] The stems are hairy.^[1] The leaves are irregularly lobed, 10 to 40 mm long and 5 to 20 mm wide, with stellate hairs.^[1] The flowers have both a calyx and a corolla, and are yellow to cream and seen between July and October.^[1]

Habitat

It grows on limestone and sandy or clayey soils, and is found in dry watercourses, claypans, salty depressions and limestone ridges.^[1]

Distribution

It is found in Beard's Eremaean Province and in the IBRA regions of Carnarvon, Gascoyne, Little Sandy Desert, Murchison, Pilbara and Yalgoo.^[1]

Taxonomy

L. densiflora was first described as Plagianthus densiflorus by Baker in 1892,^[5][6] and in 1967, was redescribed by Melville who assigned it to the genus, Lawrencia, with the plant thereby becoming Lawrencia densiflora.^[7][2]