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Sphaerolobium hygrophilum
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Sphaerolobium hygrophilum is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with many stems, that typically grows to a height of up to 1.7 m and has pink to red or orange flowers from August to December. It was first formally described in 2004 by Ryonen Butcher in Australian Systematic Botany from specimens collected near Northcliffe in 2000. The specific epithet (hygrophilum) means "water-loving".
- Family
- Fabaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Sphaerolobium hygrophilum
- Slug
- sphaerolobium-hygrophilum
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Sphaerolobium
- Species
- hygrophilum
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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