Lasiopetalum microcardium is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a low, spreading or straggling shrub with hairy stems, heart-shaped leaves and blue, purple or white flowers.
Lasiopetalum microcardium is a low, spreading or straggling shrub that typically grows to a height of and has hairy stems. The leaves are heart-shaped, long and wide. The flowers are borne on a pedicel long with bracteoles long below the base of the sepals. The sepals are petal-like, blue, pink or white, long and joined near the base. There are no petals and the anthers are long on a filament long. Flowering occurs from August to December.
Lasiopetalum microcardium was first formally described in 1904 by Ernst Georg Pritzel in Engler's journal Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie.[1] [2] The specific epithet (microcardium) means "a small heart" referring to the size and shape of the leaves.[3]
This lasiopetalum grows in lateritic soils on ridges and breakaways in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest and Mallee biogeographic regions of south-western Western Australia.
Lasiopetalum microcardium is listed as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.