Phebalium canaliculatum is a species of erect shrub that is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is more or less covered with silvery and rust-coloured scales and has thin, cylindrical leaves and dark pink to pale mauve flowers in umbels on the ends of branches.
Description
Phebalium canaliculatum is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.4–2 m (1 ft 4 in – 6 ft 7 in) and is more or less covered with silvery and rust-coloured scales. The leaves are cylindrical to slightly flattened, about 25 mm (0.98 in) long and 1.5 mm (0.059 in) wide on a very short petiole. The flowers are dark pink to pale mauve and arranged in sessile umbels on the ends of branchlets, each flower on a pedicel 4–7 mm (0.16–0.28 in) long. The sepals are about 1 mm (0.039 in) long and joined for about half their length, scaly on the outside but glabrous inside. The petals are elliptical, 4–5 mm (0.16–0.20 in) long and 2–3 mm (0.079–0.118 in) wide, covered with silvery scales on the outside. The filaments of the stamens are pale mauve with a yellow anther. Flowering occurs in May or from July to October.[2][3][4][5]
^ abWilson, Paul G. "Phebalium canaliculatum". Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, Canberra. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
^Corrick, Margaret G.; Fuhrer, Bruce A. (2009). Wildflowers of Southern Western Australia. Dural, N.S.W.: Rosenberg Publishing. p. 196. ISBN9781877058844.
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