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Synaphea divaricata (Benth.) A.S.George

Reference
Fl.Australia 16:489 (1995)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Tufted shrub, 0.15-0.3 m high. Fl. yellow, Jun or Aug to Oct. White or grey sand. Slopes, among quartzite rocks.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 9 September 1995
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Scientific Description

Shrubs; branchlets hairy. Leaves alternate, 95-270 mm long, hairy; petiole hairy; lamina flat, twice or more divided, pinnately divided or tripartitely divided, shallowly divided or deeply divided, indumentum appressed; distance from base of leaf to lowest lobe 75-150 mm; terminal leaf lobe 7-15 mm long, 2-5 mm wide; lowest lobes 40-60 mm long. Inflorescences yellow; scape 125-160 mm long; floral bracts 1.3-1.5 mm long. Perianth 4.5-5 mm long, glabrous; adaxial tepal 4.5-5 mm long; abaxial tepal 3.5-3.9 mm long; ovary hairy, style glabrous; style including stigmatic disc 2-2.5 mm long, lobed; stigma 0.6-0.7 mm long, 0.6-0.8 mm wide. Flowers in April, July or August. Occurs in the Eremaean (ER) or South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Coolgardie (COO), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Mallee (MAL) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s).

C. Hollister and K.R. Thiele, 19 January 2024

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Mallee.
IBRA Subregions
Eastern Mallee, Fitzgerald, Merredin, Recherche, Southern Cross, Western Mallee.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Coolgardie, Esperance, Gnowangerup, Jerramungup, Kondinin, Lake Grace, Merredin, Ravensthorpe.