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The Western Australian Herbarium’s collections management system, WAHerb, and DBCA’s taxonomic names application, WACensus, have been set to read-only mode since 1 October 2025. Recent taxonomic changes are not reflected in Florabase, herbarium collections, or in the census. We are hoping to be able to reinstate services around December 15; we will provide an update at that time.

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Synaphea floribunda A.S.George

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.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 9 September 1995
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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).

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

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.