Stenanthemum arens
Stenanthemum arens is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to South Australia. It is a twiggy shrub with broadly egg-shaped to almost circular leaves and heads of 10 to 20 silky-hairy white, tube-shaped flowers, usually with whitish floral leaves. Description
Stenanthemum arens is a twiggy shrub, its young stems covered with soft or shaggy, greyish or rust-coloured hairs. Its leaves are broadly egg-shaped with the narrower end toards the base, or almost round,  long and wide on a petiole  long, with narrowly triangular to linear stipules  long at the base. Both surfaces of the leaves are covered with greyish, star-shaped hairs. The leaves are often folded lengthwise. The flowers are borne in groups of 10 to 20 up to  wide with bracts  long and surrounded by whitish flower leaves. Each flower is on a shaggy-hair pedicel up to  long. The floral tube is  long and  wide, the sepals  long and the petals  long. Flowering has been observed in July, and the fruit is  long. Taxonomy and naming
Stenanthemum arens was first formally described in 2007 by Kevin Thiele in the Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens from specimens collected by John Carrick in 1969. The specific epithet (arens) means "dry or parched", referring to the appearance of the plant as well as its habitat. Distribution and habitat
This species grows on rocky hills in the north-west Gawler Ranges of South Australia. References

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Rosales of Australia
Flora of South Australia
Plants described in 2007
Taxa named by Kevin Thiele