Lysiosepalum involucratum is a small shrub species in the family Malvaceae

Malvaceae

Malvaceae, or the mallow family, is a family of flowering plants containing over 200 genera with close to 2,300 species. Judd & al. Well known members of this family include okra, jute and cacao...

. It is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia

Western Australia

Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...

. Plants grow to between 0.3 and 1.5 metres high, and produce mauve flowers between August and November in the species native range.

The species was first formally described as Thomasia involucrata by botanist Nicolai Stepanovitch Turczaninow

Nicolai Stepanovitch Turczaninow

Porphir Kiril Nicolai Stepanowitsch Turczaninow was a Ukrainian-Russian botanist who first identified several genera, and many species of plants...

 in 1852 in Bulletin de la Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou. The species was tranferred to the genus Lysiosepalum in 1917 by English botanist George Claridge Druce

George Claridge Druce

George Claridge Druce, MA, LLD, JP, FRS, FLS was an English botanist and a Mayor of Oxford.G. Claridge Druce was born at Potterspury on Watling Street in Northamptonshire. He was the illegitimate son of Jane Druce, born 1815 in Buckinghamshire.He went to school in the village of Yardley Gobion....

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Cultivation

The species prefers a sunny or partially shaded position in well drained soil. Established plants tolerate dry periods The most common method of propagation is from cuttings of semi-mature new growth. Although plants may be propagated from seed, it is difficult to obtain.