#lechenaultia

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Lechenaultia sp.

18-SEP-2025

Cranbourne Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, Vic

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Heath lechenaultia (Lechenaultia tubiflora) is endemic to southwestern Australia and one of the weirdest Lechanaltia species I have seen. Check out how it shares the habitat (sandy plain) with a Drosera species in Fitzgerald River National Park.

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Wreath Flower (Lechenaultia macrantha) of Western Australia. They like to grow along roadside.  Pindar Western Australia, 19 Sep 2016.

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#3192 - Leschenaultia biloba - Blue Leschenaultia 

Slightly peculiar-looking examples of a wildflower widespread here the SW of WA. They normally look like this -

The correct spelling of the generic name, Lechenaultia, is open to some argument. It was named after Jean-Baptiste Louis Claude Théodore Leschenault de La Tour, a French botanist and ornithologist who visited Australia in 1802-3. However, when Robert Brown (1773–1858) & 'the father of Australian botany' first published the name he spelt it Lechenaultia, omitting the 's'. The spelling without the 's' is considered valid by Australian taxonomists.

A prostrate, almost leafless, herbaceous subshrub that comes up in profusion after bushfires.

The genus of twenty species has an impressive range of colours - blue, green, yellow, red and white - making them highly prized for horticultural work.

GSB2023 Wongan Hills - various locations.

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Lechenaultia, Stirling Range, Western Australia by Laura West

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Lechenaultia biloba © Uluwehi Knecht