(c) Bushmonger, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) Floribunda from thFloribunda from the Latin - flowering profusely. Occurs within the Stirling Range National Park and near Cranbrook. Grows in heath or mallee-heath on lower and upper slopes of mountain peaks, on sand or sandy clay over quartzite or on stony ground, occasionally on peaty sand associated with swamps or winter-wet depressions. A shrub to 2 m tall. The leaves are single, sometimes crowded but not clustered except around flower heads, with a stalk up to 2 mm long; blade obovate or obovate-elliptic, sometimes narrowly so, often undulate or twisted and often recurved towards the apex, typically 5–15 mm long and 1.5–4.5 mm wide, with 1 or 3 longitudinal veins, hairless except when young, tapered to the base, margin usually minutely and irregularly indented, the tip pointed and mucronate (the vein terminates in an exposed point). The flowers are in clusters either axillary or on short shoots. The clusters may only consist of a few
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