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Westringia fitzgeraldensis is a species of plant in the mint family that is endemic to Western Australia.

Westringia fitzgeraldensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Lamiales
Family:	Lamiaceae
Genus:	Westringia
Species:	W. fitzgeraldensis
Binomial name
Westringia fitzgeraldensis R.W.Davis & P.Jobson, 2013[1]
Known range of Westringia fitzgeraldensis (in blue)

Etymology

The specific epithet fitzgeraldensis refers to the type locality.[1]

Description

The species grows as an erect, open shrub to 1.2 m in height. The leaves are 7.5–11.1 mm long and 1.1–1.6 mm wide, occurring in crowded whorls of four. The flowers are white, appearing in September.[1]

Distribution and habitat

The species occurs in the Esperance Plains IBRA bioregion of south-western Australia.[2] It is known only from a single population, in a valley west of Hopetoun, in the Fitzgerald River National Park. There it is found on alluvial, orange-brown, loam soils with quartzite fragments, in open mallee woodland, in association with Eucalyptus uncinata, E. redunca, E. conglobata, Melaleuca pomphostoma, M. suberosa and Siegfriedia darwinioides.[1]

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