Tetratheca phoenix

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{speciesbox |image = |image_caption = | status = | status_system = | status_ref = |genus = Tetratheca |species = phoenix |authority = R.Butcher, 2007<ref name="nuytsia2007">{{cite journal |last1=Butcher|first1=R | date=2007 |title= Tetratheca exasperata and T. phoenix (Elaeocarpaceae), two new conservation-listed species allied to T. setigera, from south-west Western Australia |url=https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/nuytsia/article/482 |journal= Nuytsia |volume=17 |issue= |pages=117–126 |doi= |access-date=}}</ref> |synonyms = |synonyms_ref = |range_map = |range_map_caption = }} '''''Tetratheca phoenix''''' is a species of flowering plant in the quandong family that is endemic to Australia. ==Description== The species grows as a small shrub to 25 cm in height, with dark pink-magenta flowers.<ref name="florabase">{{cite web |url= https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/31781 |title= Tetratheca phoenix R.Butcher |author=Amanda Spooner|date=2008 |website= Florabase|publisher=Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, Western Australia |access-date= 17 October 2021}}</ref><ref name="nuytsia2007"/> ==Distribution and habitat== The range of the species lies within the Jarrah Forest IBRA bioregion of south-west Western Australia in a small area some 70 km south of the city of Perth on the Darling Scarp. The plants are known only from Mount Cooke, where theygrow near large rock outcrops on brown granitic gravelly loam soils.<ref name="florabase"/><ref name="nuytsia2007"/> ==References== {{reflist}} {{Taxonbar|from1= Q18009910}}

phoenix Category:Eudicots of Western Australia Category:Oxalidales of Australia Category:Plants described in 2007