Diplolaena mollis is a species of flowering plant in the family Rutaceae and is endemic to the west coast of Western Australia. It has broadly elliptic or egg-shaped, leathery leaves that are densely covered in hairs and reddish, pendulous flowers.
Diplolaena mollis is a shrub to high with broad egg-shaped or elliptic leaves. The leaves are usually long, leathery, wedge-shaped at the base, rounded at the apex, thickly covered in light tan, smooth, soft, weak star-shaped hairs on a petiole long. The flowers about in diameter, outer bracts broadly oval shaped to narrowly oblong, pointed, long, densely covered with soft, smooth, star-shaped hairs. The inner row of bracts barely longer than outer bracts, narrowly oblong, pointed, thin, almost hairless. The pale red petals about long with woolly star-shaped hairs to smooth. The stamens long, pale to dark red with star-shaped, soft, weak, fine hairs toward the base. Flowering occurs from May or July to September.[1] [2]
This species was first formally described in 1998 by Paul G. Wilson and the description was published in the journal Nuytsia.[3] [4]
Diplolaena mollis grows on the central west coast of Western Australia north of Geraldton to Shark Bay, in scrubland in sandy situations over limestone.[2]