- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Erect to spreading shrub, 1-6 m high. Fl. yellow-green/cream-white, Apr or Jun or Aug to Dec. Loam, gravel, lateritic soils. Often along watercourses.
Scientific Description
Shrubs, 1-2 m high; branchlets glabrous or hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 25-80 mm long, 6-12 mm wide, hairy or glabrous, on the abaxial surface, the hairs straight; lamina flat, widest around the middle, entire; lobes 3-15 mm long, 2-4 mm wide, the margins recurved. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, white or cream; pedicels 3-6 mm long. Perianth 3-4 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, hairy, simple-hairy; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 0.5-1.5 mm long; pistil 5-8 mm long, red, pollen presenter oblique, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 10-13 mm long. Flowers in September or October. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Swan Coastal Plain (SWA) or Jarrah Forest (JF) IBRA subregion(s).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain.
- IBRA Subregions
- Northern Jarrah Forest, Perth, Southern Jarrah Forest.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Armadale, Donnybrook-Balingup, Gosnells, Harvey, Kalamunda, Mundaring, Murray, Serpentine-Jarrahdale, Swan, Wandering, Waroona.