About Chorilaena quercifolia Endl.
Chorilaena quercifolia Endl., commonly known as karri oak, is a bushy shrub that typically reaches 1 to 4 meters (3 feet 3 inches to 13 feet 1 inch) in height and 1 to 3 meters (3 feet 3 inches to 9 feet 10 inches) in width. Its leaves are papery, broadly egg-shaped, and 30 to 55 millimeters (1.2 to 2.2 inches) long, growing on a thin petiole around 10 millimeters (0.39 inches) long. Flowers of this species are most often green, but may also be yellow, white, red, or pink. They are arranged in five-flowered umbels borne on a downturned peduncle about 10 millimeters (0.39 inches) long. The central flower of the umbel is sessile, while the four surrounding flowers grow on horizontally spreading pedicels around 4 millimeters (0.16 inches) long. At the base of the sepals are thread-like to spatula-shaped bracts and bracteoles that are roughly the same length as the flowers. The sepals are joined at their base, with narrow triangular lobes around 6 millimeters (0.24 inches) long, and the outer surface of the sepals is covered in woolly, star-shaped hairs. The petals are oblong to elliptical, 7 to 8 millimeters (0.28 to 0.31 inches) long, with star-shaped hairs on their outer surface, and the stamens are two to three times as long as the petals. Flowering occurs mainly between October and February. This species grows on rocky coasts and hillsides within 60 kilometers (37 miles) of the coast, between Cape Naturaliste and Bald Island in Western Australia.
