Lasiopetalum glabratum 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 densely hairy young stems, egg-shaped leaves and pale mauve-pink reddish-purple flowers.
Lasiopetalum glabratum is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of up to, its young stems covered with tan or dark red, star-shaped hairs. The leaves are mostly glabrous, egg-shaped, mostly long and wide on a petiole long. The flowers are borne in loose groups of three to six long, each group on a peduncle long, each flower on a pedicel long with linear to narrowly egg-shaped bracts long at the base and similar bracteoles long near the base of the sepals. The sepals are pale mauve-pink with a dark red base, the lobes narrowly egg-shaped long and there are no petals. The anthers are reddish-purple and long. Flowering usually occurs from August to December.[1] [2]
Lasiopetalum glabratum was first formally described in 1974 by Susan Paust in the journal Nuytsia from specimens she collected near Mount Cooke in 1971.[3] The specific epithet (glabratum) means "without hair".[4]
This lasiopetalum grows in forest or woodland, in areas east of Perth in the Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain biogeographic regions of south-western Western Australia.
Lasiopetalum glabratum is listed as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.