''Chloanthes coccinea'' is a species of flowering plant in the family

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. It is a small, sprawling shrub with scarlet or deep pink flowers. It is

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to Western Australia.

Description

''Chloanthes coccinea'' is a small, spreading, much branched shrub with stems in cross section more or less circular. The leaves are arranged opposite, narrowly linear, almost needle-shaped due to rolled margins, long and wide, stiff, leathery, distinctly blistered on upper surface, densely woolly on the underside. The

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s are long,

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long with branched hairs,

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5 lobed, long, moderately crowded with branched hairs and a blistered surface. The scarlet, red or deep pink corolla long, with branched hairs in the throat, four stamens,

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long, glandular with soft hairs on the outside, mostly smooth on the inside. The larger anterior lobe has small hairs, the two upper lobes oblong to egg-shaped, rounded at the apex, long, wide at the base. The two lower lobes oblong to egg-shaped, long and wide at the base. The floral tube almost cylindrical near the base. Flowering occurs from July to November and the fruit roughly spherical, long and in diameter and soft hairs on the surface.

Taxonomy and naming

''Chloanthes coccinea'' was first formally described in 1845 by

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and the description was published in ''

Plantae Preissianae ''Plantae preissianae sive enumeratio plantarum quas in australasia occidentali et meridionali-occidentali annis 1838-1841 collegit Ludovicus Preiss'', more commonly known as ''Plantae preissianae'', is a book written by Johann Georg Christian Le ...

''. The

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(''coccinea'') means "scarlet".

Distribution and habitat

This species grows in sand and gravel on sand plains and lateritic locations north of Albany.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q15350839 coccinea Flora of Western Australia Lamiales of Australia Plants described in 1845