Phebalium squamulosumVent.

WFO wfo-0000470247 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Phebalium squamulosum, photographed by ronavery
fig. a ronavery, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-01-11 / obs. 175684834
Phebalium squamulosum, photographed by ronavery
fig. b ronavery, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175680436
Phebalium squamulosum, photographed by Nina Kerr
fig. c Nina Kerr, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175233124
Phebalium squamulosum, photographed by Andrew Harvey
fig. d Andrew Harvey, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 162355352
Phebalium squamulosum, photographed by Andrew Harvey
fig. e Andrew Harvey, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 92783725
Phebalium squamulosum, photographed by tobyyy
fig. f tobyyy, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 93550275
Phebalium squamulosum, photographed by Thomas Mesaglio
fig. g Thomas Mesaglio, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 88341480
Phebalium squamulosum, photographed by Thomas Mesaglio
fig. h Thomas Mesaglio, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 47224965

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Native range 3 botanical countries

Regions where Phebalium squamulosum is native: New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria New South WalesQueenslandVictoria
Native distribution of Phebalium squamulosum, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
New South Wales NSW AUSTRALASIA
Queensland QLD
Victoria VIC

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 133 in flower of 186 examined

Peak flowering in Aug. Each bar is the share of Phebalium squamulosum observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 133 of 186 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 2 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 10 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Eriostemon alpinus F.Muell.
  • Eriostemon elaeagnifolius Baill.
  • Eriostemon lepidotus Spreng.
  • Eriostemon ozothamnoides F.Muell.
  • Phebalium alpinum (Benth.) Maiden & Betche
  • Phebalium aureum A.Cunn.
  • Phebalium elaeagnifolium A.Juss.
  • Phebalium ozothamnoides F.Muell.
  • Phebalium podocarpoides F.Muell.
  • Phebalium squamulosum var. alpinum Benth.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.