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Synaphea quartzitica A.S.George

Reference
Fl.Australia 16:494 (1995)
Conservation Code
Threatened
A taxon name retains its ‘Threatened’ status until a new name has been officially endorsed and appears in the Gazettal Notice.
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Small tufted shrub. Fl. yellow, Jul to Aug. Rocky quartzite hill.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 11 July 1996
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Scientific Description

Shrubs; branchlets hairy. Leaves alternate, 110-175 mm long, hairy; petiole hairy; lamina flat, twice or more divided, pinnately divided or tripartitely divided, shallowly divided or deeply divided, indumentum appressed; distance from base of leaf to lowest lobe 50-120 mm; terminal leaf lobe 4-15 mm long, 3-5 mm wide; lowest lobes 20-55 mm long. Inflorescences yellow; scape 90-200 mm long; floral bracts 1.5-2 mm long. Perianth 5-5.5 mm long, glabrous; adaxial tepal 5-5.5 mm long; abaxial tepal 4 mm long; ovary hairy, style glabrous; style including stigmatic disc 2.5-3 mm long, entire; stigma 1.5 mm long, 0.6 mm wide. Follicles 3-4 mm long. Flowers in July or August. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Geraldton Sandplains (GS) or Avon Wheatbelt (AW) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Threatened (T).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains.
IBRA Subregions
Katanning, Lesueur Sandplain.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Moora.