- Reference
- Fl.Australia 16:500 (1995)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Many-stemmed shrub, to 2 m high. Fl. yellow, Jun to Nov. Deep white-yellow sands or loamy, clayey or gravelly soils, laterite, granite. Flats, gorges, base of scarp, rocky hills, plateaus, roadsides.
Scientific Description
Shrubs; branchlets glabrous or hairy. Leaves whorled, 25-65 mm long, 3-12 mm wide, glabrous; lamina flat, clearly widest below the middle, clearly widest above the middle or more or less the same width throughout, entire, the margins flat; apex obtuse or acute, 1-1.5 mm long. Inflorescences yellow; innermost bracts 10-15 mm long. Perianth 27-30 mm long, glabrous; pistil 28-34 mm long, style hairy. Flowers in June, July, August, September, October or November. 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
- Dandaragan Plateau, Northern Jarrah Forest, Perth, Southern Jarrah Forest.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Armadale, Busselton, Canning, Capel, Chittering, Gingin, Gosnells, Kalamunda, Mundaring, Murray, Perth, Serpentine-Jarrahdale, Swan, Wandering.