Ptilotus manglesii
Mulla Mulla
Mulla Mulla
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Common name: Mulla Mulla (Noongar name)
Pom Poms
Conservation status: unknown
Etymology:
Flowers:
It flowers between September and January producing pink flowers
Fruit:
Leaves:
Stem & branches:
Roots:
Habit:
The herb has a prostrate to ascending habit
Typically grows to a height of 0.05 to 0.3 m
Habitat:
Grows in sandy or gravelly soils
Distribution:
Native to Western Australia
From the Mid West, Wheatbelt, Peel and South West regions
Additional notes:
Taxonomy
The species was first described by the botanist Robert Brown in 1810 as Trichinium macrocephalum in Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae,
It was renamed by John Lindley in 1839 to Trichinium manglesii
Reclassified by Ferdinand von Mueller to Ptilotus manglesii in 1868 in the work Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae
Sources of information:
(2023)