- Reference
- Fl.Ned.Ind. 1(2):522 (1859)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Dense, much-branched shrub or tree, to 7 m high. Fl. white, Mar or May to Oct. Sand clay over sandstone, brown skeletal soils, basalt. Ephemeral watercourses, valley floors, cliffs, scree slopes, vine thickets.
Scientific Description
Shrub, spines absent; branchlets smooth, without distinct raised glands, +/- cylindrical in cross-section, glabrous. Leaves alternate, compound, each 50-160 mm long, 20-45 mm wide, flat, the margins flat, smooth, without distinct raised glands, glabrous; stipular excrescences absent. Flowers; pedicels 1 mm long; calyx present, 1 mm long, smooth, without distinct raised glands, glabrous except for a ciliate marginal fringe, the hairs stellate (star-shaped); corolla white or cream, 5 mm long, imbricate (overlapping), free, hairy on the surfaces; stamens twice as many as petals, 2.5-4 mm long, smooth, hairy, without an appendage. Flowers in March, May, June, July, August, September and October. Occurs in the Northern Botanical Province, in the North Kimberley IBRA region(s).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Northern Kimberley.
- IBRA Subregions
- Berkeley, Mitchell.
- IMCRA Regions
- Canning, Kimberley.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Broome, Derby-West Kimberley, Wyndham-East Kimberley.