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Showing Lasiopetalum rutilans
- APC
- Plantae(reg.)
- Charophyta(div.)
- Equisetopsida(cl.)
- Magnoliidae(subcl.)
- Rosanae(superordo)
- Malvales(ordo)
- Malvaceae(fam.)
- Lasiopetalum(gen.)
- rutilans(sp.)
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Type: "Mount Lesueur National Park, Western Australia [precise locality withheld for conservation reasons], 23 August 2016, K.A. Shepherd & C.F. Wilkins KS 1601 (holo: PERTH 08858128; iso: BRI, CANB, K, MEL, NSW)."
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APC Dist.: WA
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Etymology: "The epithet is from the Latin rutilans (bright red), in reference to the distinctive colour of the stellate hairs evident on new leaf growth, peduncles and the outer surface of the calyx of this species..."