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Petrophile pauciflora Foreman

Reference
Fl.Australia 16:476 (1995)
Conservation Code
Priority Three
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Shrub, ca 1 m high. Fl. yellow, Sep. Decaying & dissected granite breakaways.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 21 September 1999
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 0.5-1 m high; branchlets hairy, with curled hairs. Leaves alternate, 15-35 mm long, 2-2.3 mm wide, glabrous; lamina terete, more or less the same width throughout, once divided, tripartitely divided, entire or divided to the midrib, with 3 points or lobes; distance from base of leaf to lowest lobe 15-25 mm. Inflorescences not viscid, yellow or orange. Perianth 5-7 mm long, hairy, the limb apex hairy all over; pistil 10-15 mm long; pollen presenter fusiform, hairy, 6-7 mm long. Cone with persistent scales, 6-8 mm long. Flowers in September. Occurs in the Eremaean (ER) Botanical Province(s), in the Yalgoo (YAL), Murchison (MUR) or Avon Wheatbelt (AW) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Priority Three (P3).

C. Hollister and K.R. Thiele, 19 January 2024

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Murchison, Yalgoo.
IBRA Subregions
Eastern Murchison, Merredin, Tallering, Western Murchison.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Cue, Greater Geraldton, Mount Magnet, Mount Marshall, Murchison, Perenjori, Sandstone, Yalgoo.