- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Rhizomatous, cushion forming stoloniferous perennial, grass-like or herb, 0.02-0.09 m high. Fl. yellow, Sep to Oct. Clayey loam, sand. Damp flats, swamp margins.
Scientific Description
Leaves flat, 16-80 mm long, 7 mm wide; bristles or hairs on the leaf margin absent; hairs on the surface of the leaf absent (leaf surfaces glabrous). Scape absent. Inflorescence subtended by a bract 10-15 mm long, with one flower; pedicels present, 7.5-8 mm long; flowers 15-17 mm long. Perianth hairy, radially symmetrical, uniformly coloured, yellow, with six more or less equal tepals, the inner segments 9-10 mm long. Stamens six, in one level; filaments 2-2.5 mm long; anther 4.5-5 mm long, without an appendage. Style 9-9.5 mm long. Flowers in September or October. Occurs in the Avon Wheatbelt, Mallee and Esperance IBRA bioregion(s), of the South-west Botanical Province.
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Mallee.
- IBRA Subregions
- Eastern Mallee, Fitzgerald, Katanning, Recherche, Western Mallee.
- IMCRA Regions
- WA South Coast.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Albany, Broomehill-Tambellup, Cranbrook, Dumbleyung, Esperance, Gnowangerup, Jerramungup, Kent, Lake Grace, Plantagenet, Ravensthorpe.