- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Erect to spreading shrub, 0.9-3.5 m high. Fl. red, Aug to Dec. Sand, sandy loam. Near salt lakes.
Scientific Description
Shrubs, 1.5-2.5 m high; branchlets glabrous or hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 60-150 mm long, 1-2 mm wide, hairy, on the adaxial or abaxial surface, the hairs straight; lamina flat, more or less the same width throughout, entire, the margins revolute, enclosing the lower surface of the leaf blade, forming a groove either side of the midvein. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, red; pedicels 6-8 mm long. Perianth 15-18 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, hairy, glandular-hairy or simple-hairy; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 5-6 mm long; pistil 20-25 mm long, red, pollen presenter oblique, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 12-20 mm long. Flowers in August, September, October, November or December. Occurs in the Eremaean (ER) or South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Yalgoo (YAL), Murchison (MUR), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Coolgardie (COO) or Avon Wheatbelt (AW) IBRA subregion(s).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Great Victoria Desert, Murchison, Yalgoo.
- IBRA Subregions
- Eastern Goldfield, Eastern Murchison, Merredin, Shield, Southern Cross, Tallering.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Coolgardie, Cue, Dalwallinu, Dundas, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Laverton, Leonora, Menzies, Mount Marshall, Nungarin, Perenjori, Sandstone, Westonia, Wiluna, Yalgoo, Yilgarn.