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Common name:         ...

Conservation status: ...

Etymology:   

• The genus is named after Russian botanist Nikolai Zheleznov (1816-1877)

• The specific epithet (verrucosa) means "covered with warts"

Flowers:                  

• The yellow flowers are borne at the end of branchlets, outer yellow-green bracts are 5–8 mm long

• The calyx is 6–12 mm long, warty, mostly smooth except for small, star-shaped hairs on the edges

• The  petals are 6–8 mm long, overlapping and smooth

• Flowering occurs in July to October

Fruit:                         

Leaves:         

• The thick, oval-shaped leaves are arranged alternately, 3–6 mm long, 2–2.5 mm wide

• They are warty, margins flat, leaves covered in scales or star-shaped hairs

Stem & branches: 

Roots:         

Habit:        

• A shrub to 1 m high with warty branchlets that are covered with star-shaped hairs or scales

Habitat:   

• Sand plains and gravelly soils 

Distribution:    

• South-eastern Western Australia north of Perth

Additional notes:     

• Taxonomy 

  • Geleznowia verrucosa was first formally described in 1849 by Ukrainian-Russian botanist Nicolai Stepanovitch Turczaninow 

  • The description was published in Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 

Sources of information:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geleznowia_verrucosa (2024)