- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Erect or sometimes spreading shrub or tree, 1-3 m high. Fl. red/pink/orange, May to Aug or Oct. Soils on sandstone or quartzite. Rocky hills, cliffs or ridges.
Scientific Description
Shrubs, 1-3 m high; branchlets hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 30-90 mm long, 25-35 mm wide, hairy, on the adaxial or abaxial surface, the hairs straight; lamina flat, more or less the same width throughout, once divided, pinnately divided, shallowly divided, the margins flat. Inflorescences axillary or cauline, yellow or red; pedicels 2-9 mm long. Perianth 4-6 mm long; tepals some joined and some free after flower opens, glabrous; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 1.5-3 mm long; pistil 6-8 mm long, yellow, pollen presenter lateral, style hairy. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 10-13 mm long. Flowers in April, May, June, July or August. Occurs in the Northern (N) Botanical Province(s), in the Northern Kimberley (NK), Central Kimberley (CK) or Dampierland (DL) IBRA subregion(s).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Central Kimberley, Dampierland, Great Sandy Desert, Northern Kimberley.
- IBRA Subregions
- Fitzroy Trough, McLarty, Mitchell, Pentecost, Pindanland.
- IMCRA Regions
- Kimberley.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Broome, Derby-West Kimberley, Wyndham-East Kimberley.