- Reference
- Telopea 3:500 (1990)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Perennial, herb or shrub, 0.15-0.6 m high. Fl. white-cream/blue-purple, Mar to Aug. Sandy soils. Sandstone hills & rocks.
Scientific Description
Stems ribbed or unribbed. Leaves flat, 4-20 mm long, 1-1.7 mm wide, Indumentum present, with sparse, glandular hairs; margins entire. Bracteoles present, 3-4 mm long, hairy, with simple hairs. Pedicel absent (flowers sessile). Calyx lobes absent. Corolla white, 6-10 mm long, without auricles, not spurred, hairy on the outside, with sparse, dendritic hairs, hairy on the inside, 0.1-0.2 mm wide. Anthers free. Ovary inferior, not gibbose; style 6-7.5 mm long, hairy; indusium single, hairy; ovules one or two. Flowers in March, April, May, June, July and August. Occurs in the Pilbara (PIL), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Northern Kimberly (NK) and Central Kimberly (CK) IBRA Region(s), of the Northern (N), Eremaean (E) and South West (SW) Botanical Province.
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Central Kimberley, Northern Kimberley, Pilbara, Victoria Bonaparte.
- IBRA Subregions
- Berkeley, Chichester, Keep, Mitchell, Pentecost.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Derby-West Kimberley, East Pilbara, Wyndham-East Kimberley.