- Reference
- Nuytsia 12:285 (1998)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Erect shrub, 0.4-2 m high. Fl. cream-white, Aug to Oct. Yellow sand, lateritic gravelly soils, clay loam, gypsum. Undulating plains, ironstone hills, breakaways.
Scientific Description
Shrub, spines absent; branchlets verrucose (warty), +/- cylindrical in cross-section, glabrous. Leaves opposite, simple, 7-15 mm long, 1-2 mm wide, flat, the margins revolute, verrucose (warty), glabrous; stipular excrescences absent. Flowers; pedicels 3-5 mm long; calyx present, 3.5-5 mm long, verrucose (warty), covered in hairs or scales; corolla white or cream, petals five, 4-6 mm long, imbricate (overlapping), free, lepidote (with scales); stamens twice as many as petals, 3-4.5 mm long, glabrous; anthers 1-1.3 mm long, without an appendage. Flowers in August, September and October. Occurs in the Eremaean and South-West Botanical Province, in the Coolgardie, Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance and Geraldton IBRA region(s).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains, Mallee.
- IBRA Subregions
- Eastern Goldfield, Fitzgerald, Geraldton Hills, Katanning, Merredin, Southern Cross, Western Mallee.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Carnamah, Chapman Valley, Coolgardie, Corrigin, Dalwallinu, Dowerin, Esperance, Koorda, Kulin, Lake Grace, Merredin, Morawa, Mount Marshall, Mukinbudin, Narembeen, Perenjori, Ravensthorpe, Trayning, Westonia, Wongan-Ballidu, Wyalkatchem, Yilgarn.