- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Spreading to prostrate, non-lignotuberous shrub, 0.4-1(-2) m high, up to 2 m wide. Fl. red/red-pink, Jun or Aug to Dec. Sandy soils with lateritic gravel.
Scientific Description
Shrubs, 0.5-2 m high; branchlets hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 20-50 mm long, 20-35 mm wide, hairy, on the adaxial or abaxial surface, the hairs straight; lamina flat, widest around the middle, once divided, pinnately divided, shallowly divided, the margins flat. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, red or pink; pedicels 7-15 mm long. Perianth 12-15 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, hairy, glandular-hairy; ovary hairy, stipitate, the stipe 2-3 mm long; pistil 20-25 mm long, red, pollen presenter oblique, style hairy. Follicles glandular hairy, not viscid, dehiscent, 12 mm long. Flowers in June, July, August, September, October, November or December. Occurs in the Eremaean (ER) or South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Coolgardie (COO), Mallee (MAL) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Mallee.
- IBRA Subregions
- Fitzgerald, Southern Cross, Western Mallee.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Dundas, Kondinin, Kulin, Lake Grace, Ravensthorpe.