Leschenaultia biloba · Kew POWO · Kew Plants of the World Online
Lechenaultia
Sign in to saveAlso known as austrilian native, Leschenaultia
thumb|Wreath lechenaultia (Lechenaultia macrantha|L. macrantha)
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderAsterales
- FamilyGoodeniaceae
Common Name: blue lechenaultia
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 16
- With media
- 8
- Family
- Goodeniaceae
- Collections
- RSA, UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA MUSEUMS, MEL, BPBM, LD
- Recorded in
- Australia, United States
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Goodeniaceae
- Named after
- Jean-Baptiste Leschenault de La Tour
- Image
- Lechenaultia biloba 01 Pengo.jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Description
- Taxonomy
- Distribution and habitat
- Ecology and fertilisation mechanism
- Species list
- References
thumb|Wreath lechenaultia (Lechenaultia macrantha|L. macrantha)
Lechenaultia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Goodeniaceae, the species native to Australia with one species (L. filiformis) also occurring in New Guinea. Plants in the genus Lechenaultia are glabrous shrubs or herbs with needle-shaped leaves, more or less sessile flowers with five sepals and five blue, white, or yellow and red petals in two unequal lobes, the fruit an elongated capsule.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lechenaultia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.