''Borya sphaerocephala'' is a perennial herbaceous plant found in southwest Australia. A common name for the species is pincushions. The height is 20–200 millimetres, White flowers appear between August and October. The species is associated with the
region's granite outcrops, occurring in depressions and seasonally wet areas, growing in crevices and at the edge of moss mats.
As a
resurrection plant A resurrection plant is any poikilohydric plant that can survive extreme dehydration, even over months or years.
Examples include:
* ''Anastatica hierochuntica'', also known as the Rose of Jericho, a plant species native to deserts of North Afric ...
it is able to withstand seasonal dehydration of its environ. The species was first described by
Robert Brown, published in his 1810 work on Australian plants.
A combination ''Baumgartenia sphaerocephala'', currently regarded as synonym, was published by
Kurt Sprengel
Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel (3 August 1766 – 15 March 1833) was a German botanist and physician who published an influential multivolume history of medicine, ''Versuch einer pragmatischen Geschichte der Arzneikunde'' (1792–99 in four vo ...
several years after Brown.
[ Sprengel, C.P.J. (1817), ''Anleitung zur Kenntniss der Gewachse'' Edn. 2, 2(1): 228 omb. nov./ref>
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References
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Boryaceae
Endemic flora of Southwest Australia
Taxa named by Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773)
Plants described in 1810