- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Spreading to straggling shrub, 0.3-3 m high. Fl. red/pink & yellow, Apr to Jun or Aug to Oct or Dec. Sandy or gravelly soils over laterite or schist.
Scientific Description
Shrubs, 1 m high; branchlets hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 30-55 mm long, hairy, the hairs straight; lamina flat, twice or more divided, pinnately divided, divided to the midrib; lobes 10-20 mm long, 1-3 mm wide, the margins revolute, exposing the lower surface of the leaf blade, forming a groove either side of the midvein. Inflorescences terminal, red or pink; pedicels 4-6 mm long. Perianth 7-11 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, hairy, glandular-hairy or simple-hairy; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 1-2 mm long; pistil 12-15 mm long, red, pollen presenter oblique, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 10-14 mm long. Flowers in June, July, August, September, October or November. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Mallee (MAL) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Esperance Plains, Mallee.
- IBRA Subregions
- Fitzgerald, Recherche, Western Mallee.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Esperance, Kent, Lake Grace, Ravensthorpe.