Seringia cacaobrunnea

Seringia cacaobrunnea, commonly known as chocolate fire-bush,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia.

It is a bushy shrub with hairy new growth, oblong to elliptic leaves and purple flowers in groups of 3 to 11.

[2][3] Seringia cacaobrunnea was first formally described in 2016 by Carolyn F. Wilkins in Australian Systematic Botany from specimens collected near the Norseman to Esperance Road in 2010.

[3][5] Chocolate fire-bush grows in mallee heath and woodland in isolated populations near Ravensthorpe, Lake King, Mukinbudin and east of Salmon Gums in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Esperance Plains and Mallee bioregions of south-western Western Australia.

[2][3] The species has been listed as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.

Habit near Coolgardie