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Synaphea decorticans Lindl.

Reference
Sketch Veg.Swan R. 32 (1839)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Dense shrub, to 0.6 m high. Fl. yellow, Sep to Oct. White sand, lateritic gravel. Lateritic ridge.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 9 September 1995

Scientific Description

Shrubs; branchlets hairy. Leaves alternate, 140-380 mm long, glabrous; petiole glabrous; lamina flat, once divided or twice or more divided, pinnately divided or tripartitely divided, shallowly divided or deeply divided; distance from base of leaf to lowest lobe 100-200 mm; terminal leaf lobe 10-35 mm long, 5-20 mm wide; lowest lobes 40-90 mm long. Inflorescences yellow; scape 210-390 mm long; floral bracts 2-2.7 mm long. Perianth 5.5-6 mm long, glabrous; adaxial tepal 5.5-6 mm long; abaxial tepal 5-5.5 mm long; ovary hairy, style glabrous; style including stigmatic disc 4-5.5 mm long, lobed; stigma 0.8-1 mm long, 1.5-1.8 mm wide. Follicles 7-8 mm long. Flowers in September or October. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW) or Jarrah Forest (JF) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain.
IBRA Subregions
Dandaragan Plateau, Katanning, Northern Jarrah Forest, Southern Jarrah Forest.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Armadale, Beverley, Boddington, Boyup Brook, Brookton, Chittering, Kalamunda, Mundaring, Northam, Serpentine-Jarrahdale, Swan, Toodyay, Victoria Plains, Wandering, West Arthur, Williams, York.