Darwinia vestita

Darwinia vestita is an erect, bushy shrub that typically grows to height of 0.2–1 m (7.9 in – 3 ft 3.4 in) and has both short, and long arching branches. Its leaves are crowded, egg-shaped, oblong to almost linear, 2–4.5 mm (0.079–0.177 in) long, the upper surface concave and the lower surface with a prominent keel. The flowers are arranged in more or less spherical heads on a peduncle about 2 mm (0.079 in) long with bracts that fall off as the flowers open. The sepals are about 4 mm (0.16 in) long with small, scale-like lobes, the petals white or reddish-pink and about 2 mm (0.079 in) long. Flowering occurs from July to December.[2][3]

This species was first formally described in 1837 by Stephan Endlicher who gave it the name Genetyllis vestita in Enumeratio plantarum quas in Novae Hollandiæ ora austro-occidentali ad fluvium Cygnorum et in sinu Regis Georgii collegit Carolus Liber Baro de Hügel.[4][5] In 1865, George Bentham changed the name to Darwinia vestita and published the change in the Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany.[6] The specific epithet (vestita) means "clothed" or "covered", referring to the overlapping leaves in herbarium specimens.[7]

Darwinia vestita is found on stony hillsides, sandplains, granite outcrops, coastal areas and swamps in a wide area of the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Swan Coastal Plain and Warren bioregions of south-western Western Australia.[2]