- Reference
- Telopea 3: 491-492 (1990)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Erect, spreading shrub, 0.6-2 m high, with long, narrow leaves. Fl. cream-yellow, Mar or May or Aug. Skeletal red gravelly sandy soils over ironstone. Stripped undulating uplands.
Scientific Description
Stems unribbed. Leaves flat, 25-60 mm long, 2-7 mm wide, Indumentum absent (leaves glabrous); margins entire. Bracteoles present, 1-1.5 mm long, glabrous. Pedicel pedicellate, Pedicel length the pedicels 8-16 mm long, glabrous. Calyx lobes present, Calyx length 0-1 mm long, glabrous. Corolla white, 15-22 mm long, without auricles, not spurred, hairy or glabrous on the outside, with sparse, stellate hairs, hairy on the inside, 0.3-1 mm wide. Anthers free. Ovary inferior, not gibbose; style 11-12 mm long, hairy; indusium single, hairy; ovules one or two. Flowers in March, April, May and August. Occurs in the Pilbara (PIL), Carnarvon (CAR) and Gascoyne (GAS) IBRA Region(s), of the Eremaean (E) Botanical Province.
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Carnarvon, Gascoyne, Pilbara.
- IBRA Subregions
- Ashburton, Augustus, Cape Range, Chichester, Hamersley, Roebourne, Wooramel.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Ashburton, Carnarvon, East Pilbara, Karratha, Meekatharra.