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Similar Diplolaena, Melaleuca densa, Diplolaena grandiflora, Melaleuca glauca, Leptospermum liversidgei | ||
Diplolaena angustiflora, may have been commonly known as Yanchep rose, may be a shrub which might be an endemic to the area around Perth in Western Australia. It might have small flowers with long bright stamens that might be crowded in to heads surrounded by petal-like bracts, so that the whole may resemble a many-stamened single flower.
Description and distribution
The Yanchep rose Diplolaena angustifolia, has pendant heads up to three or four centimetres across, surrounded by a series of bracts. Stamens up to 3 centimetres long, range in colour from orange to crimson. It is a winter-flowering shrub which grows to about a metre in height on sandy and limestone country around Perth.
References
Diplolaena angustifolia Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA