Thomasia gardneri
Thomasia gardneri, commonly known as Mount Holland thomasia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and was endemic to a restricted area of Western Australia, but is now considered to be extinct. It was a low, erect shrub with scaly, narrowly egg-shaped leaves and racemes of pink flowers. Description
Thomasia gardneri was an erect, woody shrub that grew to a height of up to , its branchlets, leaves and flower heads covered with small scales surrounded by short hairs. The leaves were arranged alternately, narrowly egg-shaped,  long and  wide on a petiole  long. The flowers were arranged on the ends of branches in racemes of one or two flowers on a peduncle  long, each flower on a pedicel about  long. The sepals were pink and about  long, the petals papery and about  long, and the 5 anthers about  long. Flowering was observed in September. Taxonomy
Thomasia gardneri was first formally described in 1974 by Susan Paust in the journal Nuytsia from specimens collected by Charles Gardner in September 1929. The specific epithet (gardneri) honours the collector of the type specimens. Distribution and habitat
This species of Thomasia is only known from specimens collected by Gardner from near Mount Holland, about  east of Perth, in the Coolgardie bioregion of inland Western Australia. The details of its habitat are not known. Conservation status
Thomasia gardneri is listed as "extinct" under the Australian Government Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 and the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions. References

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Rosids of Western Australia
Plants described in 1974
Endemic flora of Southwest Australia