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Synaphea spinulosa subsp. major A.S.George

Reference
Fl.Australia 16:495 (1995)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect to spreading shrub, 0.2-0.6 m high. Fl. yellow, Aug to Dec. White, grey or yellow sand, laterite, gravelly clay. Sandplains, sand dunes.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 12 September 1995
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Scientific Description

Shrubs. Leaves alternate, 40-100 mm long, hairy; petiole hairy; lamina flat, twice or more divided, pinnately divided, deeply divided, indumentum appressed; distance from base of leaf to lowest lobe 20-85 mm; terminal leaf lobe 7-20 mm long, 4-12 mm wide; lowest lobes 30-50 mm long. Inflorescences yellow; scape (20-)35-95 mm long; floral bracts 4-5 mm long. Perianth 7-9 mm long, hairy; adaxial tepal 8-9 mm long; abaxial tepal 6.2-8 mm long; ovary hairy, style glabrous; style including stigmatic disc 4.5-5 mm long, lobed; stigma 1-1.8 mm long, 1-1.5 mm wide. Follicles 4-5 mm long. Flowers in August, September, October, November or December. Occurs in the Eremaean (ER) or South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Coolgardie (COO), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Mallee (MAL) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Mallee.
IBRA Subregions
Eastern Mallee, Fitzgerald, Katanning, Merredin, Recherche, Southern Cross, Western Mallee.
IMCRA Regions
Eucla.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Beverley, Brookton, Bruce Rock, Coolgardie, Corrigin, Dundas, Esperance, Jerramungup, Kellerberrin, Kent, Kondinin, Koorda, Kulin, Lake Grace, Merredin, Moora, Narembeen, Narrogin, Pingelly, Quairading, Ravensthorpe, Tammin, Victoria Plains, Wongan-Ballidu, Yilgarn.