Waltheria virgata is a species of flowering plant in the mallow family, Malvaceae, that is found in the north of Western Australia,[3] and in the Northern Territory.[4]
Waltheria virgata is an erect, much branched shrub growing from a height of 0.3 m to 1 m high, and up to 1 m wide.[3] Its leaves and stems are thinly to densely covered in stellate (star-shaped) hairs.[4] Its pink-purple flowers may be seen from April to May or July to October.[3]
It grows on red sand and stony soils, on plains, on rocky hills, and in stony creeks.[3]
It was first described in 1917 by Alfred James Ewart & Isabel Clifton Cookson.[1][2] There are no synonyms.[1][5] The specific epithet, virgata, derives from the Latin word, virga, "a rod for beating", to give a Botanical Latin adjective describing the plant as having "straight slender not very flexible twigs".[6] The genus name, Waltheria, honours the German botanist Augustin Friedrich Walther.[7]
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) Waltheria virgata is a species of flowering plant in the mallow family, Malvaceae, that is found in the north of Western Australia, and in the Northern Territory.