- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Shrub or tree, 1.2-6 m high. Fl. red-orange/yellow/pink.
Scientific Description
Trees or Shrubs, 2-5 m high; branchlets hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 80-170 mm long, hairy, on the adaxial or abaxial surface, the hairs straight; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, divided to the midrib; lobes 40-130 mm long, 5-35 mm wide, the margins flat. Inflorescences terminal, yellow, orange or red; pedicels 5-8 mm long. Perianth 10-15 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, hairy, simple-hairy; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 2-3 mm long; pistil 18-22 mm long, yellow, pollen presenter lateral or oblique, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 18-31 mm long. Flowers in May, June, July or August. Occurs in the Northern (N) or Eremaean (ER) Botanical Province(s), in the Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Tanami (TAN), Pilbara (PIL), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Northern Kimberley (NK), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Central Kimberley (CK), Dampierland (DL) or Ord-Victoria Plains (OVP) IBRA subregion(s).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Central Kimberley, Dampierland, Great Sandy Desert, Little Sandy Desert, Northern Kimberley, Ord Victoria Plain, Pilbara, Tanami, Victoria Bonaparte.
- IBRA Subregions
- Berkeley, Chichester, Fitzroy Trough, Hart, Keep, Mackay, McLarty, Mitchell, Mount Eliza, Pentecost, Pindanland, Purnululu, South Kimberley Interzone, Tanami Desert, Trainor.
- IMCRA Regions
- Canning, Kimberley.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Broome, Derby-West Kimberley, East Pilbara, Halls Creek, Wyndham-East Kimberley.