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Taxandria parviceps

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Parviceps from the Latin parvi - small and ceps - headed. Refers to the small flower heads. Occurs from near Dardanup throughout the extreme south west of the state as far east as Two Peoples Bay; also recorded north to the Porongurup and Stirling Ranges. Grows in heath, shrubland, woodland or forest, often on the margins of seasonally wet areas, mostly on sandy soils and often forming quite dense thickets. In the Stirling Range the species has been recorded on heavier soils at rocky sites. A shrub or very small tree to 4 m tall. The leaves usually clustered in short axillary shoots, stalkless, spreading, curved outward in upper half, narrowly obovate or narrowly elliptic, occasionally some leaves obovate to elliptic, thick, the upper surface flat to slightly concave, the lower surface slightly convex, typically 3–7 mm long, 0.6–1.5 mm wide, hairless but sometimes with minute hairs at the leaf base, tip rounded or pointed often with a minute point. The flowers are in more or less globul...