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Synaphea spinulosa subsp. borealis A.S.George

Reference
Fl.Australia 16:494 (1995)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect to spreading shrub, 0.2-0.7 m high. Fl. yellow, Jun to Oct. White, grey or yellow sand, lateritic gravel.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 12 September 1995

Scientific Description

Shrubs; branchlets hairy. Leaves alternate, 35-95 mm long, hairy; petiole hairy; lamina flat, twice or more divided, pinnately divided or tripartitely divided, deeply divided or divided to the midrib, indumentum appressed; distance from base of leaf to lowest lobe 15-40 mm; terminal leaf lobe 6-8 mm long, 2-5 mm wide; lowest lobes 25-40 mm long. Inflorescences yellow; scape 30-70 mm long; floral bracts 3-4.5 mm long. Perianth 5.7-7.5 mm long, hairy; adaxial tepal 5.7-7.5 mm long; abaxial tepal 5-5.5 mm long; ovary hairy, style glabrous; style including stigmatic disc 4-4.3 mm long, lobed; stigma 1 mm long, 1.5 mm wide. Follicles 3-3.5 mm long. Flowers in June, July, August, September or October. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Geraldton Sandplains (GS) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Geraldton Sandplains.
IBRA Subregions
Geraldton Hills.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Chapman Valley, Northampton.