Petrophile seminuda
Petrophile seminuda is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to southwestern Western Australia. It is a shrub with needle-shaped, sharply-pointed leaves usually divided into two or three lobes, and heads of yellow flowers.
Description
Petrophile seminuda is a shrub that typically grows to a height of and usually has glabrous branchlets and leaves. The leaves are needle-shaped, sharply-pointed, long, usually divided into two or three lobes long. The flowers are arranged on the ends of branchlets in spherical or oval heads long with many egg-shaped to lance-shaped involucral bracts at the base. The flowers are long, yellow and glabrous. Flowering occurs from September to November and the fruit is a nut, fused with others in an oval or almost spherical head long.
Taxonomy
Petrophile seminuda was first formally described in 1840 by John Lindley in A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony. The specific epithet means "half-bare", referring to the bracts.
Distribution and habitat
This petrophile is mostly found in woodland, shrubland and heath on sandplains and ridges, growing in sandy-loamy soils over laterite. It is widely distributed between Geraldton, the Fitzgerald River National Park and the Darling Range to near Southern Cross.
Conservation status
Petrophile seminuda is classified as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife.