- Reference
- Nuytsia 1:201 (1971)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Erect, slender or straggling shrub, 0.3-0.9 m high. Fl. pink-white, Jun to Oct. Sandy soils. Undulating plains & rises.
Scientific Description
Shrub, spines absent; branchlets smooth, without distinct raised glands, +/- cylindrical in cross-section, glabrous. Leaves opposite, simple, 4-10 mm long, 1.5-3 mm wide, flat, the margins flat, smooth, without distinct raised glands, glabrous; stipular excrescences absent. Flowers; pedicels 1.5-3 mm long; calyx present, 1.5-2 mm long, smooth, without distinct raised glands, covered in hairs or scales, the hairs stellate (star-shaped); corolla pink or white or cream, petals four, 6 mm long, valvate (not overlapping), free, hairy on the surfaces; stamens twice as many as petals, 1.5 mm long, smooth, ciliate (with a marginal fringe of hairs). Flowers in June, July, August, September and October. Occurs in the Eremaean and South-West Botanical Province, in the Coolgardie, Avon Wheatbelt, Mallee and Geraldton IBRA region(s).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Geraldton Sandplains, Mallee.
- IBRA Subregions
- Lesueur Sandplain, Merredin, Southern Cross, Western Mallee.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Bruce Rock, Carnamah, Gnowangerup, Kent, Kondinin, Kulin, Merredin, Narembeen, Nungarin, Three Springs, Yilgarn.