Tiny thomasia

Description

Thomasia pygmaea, the tiny thomasia, is a small shrub which is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia.It grows to between 0.05 and 0.3 metres in height.Flowers are produced between August and November in its native range.These are pinkish-mauve and covered with small red dots.The species was first formally described by botanist Nicolai Stepanovitch Turczaninow in Bulletin de la Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou in 1806.He gave it the name Asterochiton pygmaeusGeorge Bentham transferred the species to the genus Thomasia in 1863