- Reference
- Nuytsia 7(1):55 (1989)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Open, erect to prostrate perennial, herb, 0.05-0.4 m high, leaves linear to terete, 0.5-1 mm wide; flowering stems 12-40 cm long. Fl. blue-violet-purple, Nov or Jan to Mar. Sandy clay, clay. Winter-wet depressions, drainage lines.
Scientific Description
Stems ribbed. Leaves compressed, 60-210 mm long, 1.2-1.5 mm wide, Indumentum absent (leaves glabrous); margins entire. Bracteoles present, 3-3.5 mm long, glabrous. Pedicel absent (flowers sessile). Calyx lobes present, Calyx length 2.5-6 mm long, glabrous. Corolla purple, 7.5-15 mm long, without auricles, not spurred, glabrous on the outside, glabrous on the inside; central lobes 4.5-6 mm long, with wings; outer lobes 6.5-8 mm long, wing present on one side only, 0.3-0.5 mm wide. Anthers connate. Ovary inferior, not gibbose; style 5.5-7.5 mm long, glabrous; indusium single, glabrous; ovules more than two. Flowers in January, February and December. Occurs in the Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Jarrah Forest (JF) and Warren (WAR) IBRA Region(s), of the South West (SW) Botanical Province.
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain, Warren.
- IBRA Subregions
- Lesueur Sandplain, Perth, Southern Jarrah Forest, Warren.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Armadale, Augusta Margaret River, Busselton, Canning, Capel, Cockburn, Dardanup, Gingin, Gosnells, Harvey, Murray, Serpentine-Jarrahdale, South Perth, Swan, Three Springs, Wanneroo, Waroona.