- Reference
- Fl.Australia 35:332 (1992)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Spreading shrub, 0.1-0.5 m high. Fl. blue-pink/white, Feb to Oct. Red sand, clay loam. Limestone & granite ridges, stony hills, creek beds.
Scientific Description
Stems unribbed. Leaves flat, 15-40 mm long, 8-10 mm wide, Indumentum present, with sparse, glandular hairs; margins toothed. Bracteoles present, 4-5 mm long, hairy, with simple hairs. Pedicel pedicellate, Pedicel length the pedicels 2-2.3 mm long, Indumentum present, Hair type with absent hairs. Calyx lobes present, Calyx length 5-6.5 mm long, hairy, with sparse, glandular hairs. Corolla blue, 10-15 mm long, without auricles, not spurred, hairy on the outside, with sparse, glandular hairs, hairy on the inside; central lobes 3.5-4 mm long, with wings; outer lobes 3.4-5 mm long, wings present on both sides, 0.2-0.6 mm wide. Anthers free. Ovary inferior, not gibbose; style 6-8 mm long, hairy; indusium single, hairy; ovules one or two. Flowers in February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September and October. Occurs in the Pilbara (PIL), Murchison (MUR), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Coolgardie (COO), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Ranges (CR), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Little Sandy Desert(LSD), Dampier land (DL), Ord-Victoria Plains (OVP), Tanami (TAN) and Central Kimberly (CK) IBRA Region(s), of the Northern (N) and Eremaean (E) Botanical Province.
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Carnarvon, Central Ranges, Coolgardie, Dampierland, Gascoyne, Gibson Desert, Great Sandy Desert, Great Victoria Desert, Little Sandy Desert, Murchison, Ord Victoria Plain, Pilbara, Tanami.
- IBRA Subregions
- Augustus, Cape Range, Carnegie, Central, Chichester, Dune Field, Eastern Goldfield, Eastern Murchison, Hamersley, Lateritic Plain, Mackay, Mann-Musgrave Block, McLarty, Pindanland, Purnululu, Roebourne, Rudall, Shield, Tanami Desert.
- IMCRA Regions
- Pilbara (nearshore).
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Ashburton, Broome, Dundas, East Pilbara, Exmouth, Halls Creek, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Karratha, Laverton, Meekatharra, Ngaanyatjarraku, Port Hedland, Wiluna.