- Reference
- Hooker's J.Bot.Kew Gard.Misc. 7:117 (1855)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Mixed (Native in Part of Range, Naturalised Elsewhere)
- Name Status
- Current
Rounded shrub, 2-3 m high. Fl. cream & pink, May to Aug. Sand, skeletal sand over granite, clay, loam. Sandplains, rocky slopes, quartzite rocks.
Scientific Description
Shrubs, 2-3 m high; branchlets hairy. Leaves alternate, 70-245 mm long, (1.5-)3-7 mm wide, glabrous; lamina flat, entire. Inflorescences axillary, cream; pedicels 7-8 mm long. Perianth 6-8 mm long, glabrous; ovary glabrous; pistil 13-16 mm long, pollen presenter erect, style glabrous. Follicles 15-25 mm long, 8-12 mm wide, corky tetrahedral projections (on external surfaces of fruit) absent; seed 11-14.5 mm long (including wing), 5.5-7 mm wide, the wing discontinuous, marginal, extending ± unequally down each lateral side. Flowers in May, June, July or August. Occurs in the Eremaean (ER) or South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Yalgoo (YAL), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Mallee (MAL) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains, Mallee, Yalgoo.
- IBRA Subregions
- Eastern Mallee, Fitzgerald, Geraldton Hills, Lesueur Sandplain, Merredin, Tallering.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Chapman Valley, Esperance, Greater Geraldton, Irwin, Mingenew, Morawa, Northampton, Ravensthorpe.