- Reference
- Fl.Australia 16:490 (1995)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Prostrate to ascending shrub, 0.1-0.3(-0.6) m high, to 1 m wide. Fl. yellow, May or Sep to Nov. White, grey or black sand, sometimes winter-wet, sandy loam, gravel.
Scientific Description
Shrubs; branchlets hairy. Leaves alternate, 95-225 mm long, 10-30 mm wide, hairy; petiole hairy; lamina flat, widest around the middle or clearly widest above the middle, entire, indumentum spreading. Inflorescences yellow; scape 140-205 mm long; floral bracts 3-3.5 mm long. Perianth 5.5-7.5 mm long, hairy; adaxial tepal 5.5-7.5 mm long; abaxial tepal 4.5-5 mm long; ovary hairy, style glabrous; style including stigmatic disc (4-)5 mm long, horned; stigma 1.5-2.5 mm long, 1-1.2 mm wide. Follicles 3-4 mm long. Flowers in May, September, October or November. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Jarrah Forest (JF), Warren (WAR) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain, Warren.
- IBRA Subregions
- Fitzgerald, Northern Jarrah Forest, Perth, Southern Jarrah Forest, Warren.
- IMCRA Regions
- Leeuwin-Naturaliste.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Beverley, Bridgetown-Greenbushes, Busselton, Capel, Collie, Cranbrook, Dardanup, Denmark, Donnybrook-Balingup, Kojonup, Manjimup, Nannup, Plantagenet, West Arthur.