- Reference
- Ann.Fl.Pomone 6:381 (1838)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Spreading, virgate shrub, 1-5 m high, up to 3 m wide. Fl. white-cream-red-brown-yellow, Jan or Mar to Apr or Jun to Nov. Gravelly loam, moist, sandy loam, clay, granite. Roadsides, outcrops.
Scientific Description
Shrubs, 1-2.5 m high; branchlets glabrous, with a glaucous bloom. Leaves alternate, 20-80 mm long, glabrous; lamina flat, once divided, tripartitely divided, shallowly divided; lobes 3-10 mm long, 3-8 mm wide, the margins flat. Inflorescences axillary, white or pink; pedicels 10-15 mm long. Perianth 3-4 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, glabrous; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 1-2 mm long; pistil 3-5 mm long, white, pollen presenter conical, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 7-10 mm long. Flowers in June, July, August, September, October or November. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW) or Jarrah Forest (JF) IBRA subregion(s).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain, Warren.
- IBRA Subregions
- Katanning, Northern Jarrah Forest, Perth, Warren.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Armadale, Augusta Margaret River, Beverley, Gosnells, Kalamunda, Mundaring, Murray, Perth, Swan, Wandering, York.