- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Erect or spreading shrub, 0.5-3 m high. Fl. red & cream/yellow/pink, May to Nov. Red loam, sometimes with gravel, red sand.
Scientific Description
Shrubs, 1.5-3 m high; branchlets hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 20-85 mm long, 1-2 mm wide, hairy or glabrous, 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 cauline, red or pink; pedicels 7-10 mm long. Perianth 7-9 mm long; tepals some joined and some free after flower opens, hairy, simple-hairy; ovary hairy, stipitate, the stipe 0.5-1 mm long; pistil 20-25 mm long, red, pollen presenter lateral, style hairy. Follicles hairy, not viscid, dehiscent, 10-13 mm long. Flowers in May, June, July, August, September, October, November or December. Occurs in the Eremaean (ER) or South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Murchison (MUR), Coolgardie (COO), Avon Wheatbelt (AW) or Mallee (MAL) IBRA subregion(s).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Mallee, Murchison.
- IBRA Subregions
- Eastern Goldfield, Eastern Mallee, Eastern Murchison, Fitzgerald, Merredin, Southern Cross, Western Mallee.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Coolgardie, Esperance, Jerramungup, Menzies, Sandstone, Tammin, Yilgarn.