Lasiopetalum cardiophyllum, is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with egg-shaped to heart-shaped leaves and groups of pinkish flowers.
Lasiopetalum cardiophyllum is an erect shrub with many stems, that typically grows to a height of, its young stems covered with star-shaped hairs. The leaves are broadly egg-shaped to heart-shaped or triangular, long and wide on a hairy petiole long. The upper surfaces of the leaves is more or less glabrous and the lower surface is covered with woolly, grey, star-shaped hairs. The flowers are arranged in groups of three to six long, the peduncle long, each flower on a pedicel about long with linear bracts about long at the base and a linear bracteole about long at the base of the sepals. The sepals are pink with a dark red base, about long with five egg-shaped lobes long and there are no petals. Flowering mostly occurs from August to December.[1]
Lasiopetalum cardiophyllum was first formally described in 1974 by Susan Paust in the journal Nuytsia from specimens collected by Alexander Morrison on Mount Saddleback in 1904.[2] The specific epithet (cardiophyllum) means "heart-leaved".[3]
This lasiopetalum grows on flats and hillslopes between North Bannister and Mount Saddleback in the Avon Wheatbelt and Jarrah Forest biogeographic regions of south-western Western Australia.
Lasiopetalum cardiophyllum is listed as "Priority Four" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, meaning that is rare or near threatened.[4]