- Reference
- Austral.Syst.Bot. 8:1237-1238,Fig.36 (1995)
- Conservation Code
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Threatened
A taxon name retains its ‘Threatened’ status until a new name has been officially endorsed and appears in the Gazettal Notice.
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Many-stemmed shrub, 0.3-0.8 m high. Fl. red, Apr to May. Gravelly lateritic soils. Undulating plains, rises.
Scientific Description
Erect, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, spiny at least in part, glabrous; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, alternate, not continuous with stem, 95-180 mm long, glabrous, terete; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules apparently absent even from the youngest leaves. Pedicel present, 13-15 mm long, glabrous. Bracteoles absent. Calyx 6-7.5 mm long, not accrescent, glabrous, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 20-23 mm long, uniformly coloured, red; claws present; standard 20-23 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 15-17 mm long, not auriculate, keel 15-18 mm long, beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.3-0.4 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 18-23 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, glabrous; style 20-25 mm long, glabrous, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), sessile or subsessile, not constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, beaked. Flowers in April and May. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Geraldton Sandplains and Avon Wheatbelt IBRA regions. Conservation Code Threatened (T).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains.
- IBRA Subregions
- Lesueur Sandplain, Merredin.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Carnamah, Irwin, Mingenew, Three Springs.