- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Spreading or sprawling, glaucous shrub, to 0.6 m high. Fl. yellow & red/brown. Sandy gravel.
Scientific Description
Twining or climbing plants, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, spiny at least in part, glabrous; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, alternate, continuous with stem, 7-75 mm long, 1.5-2.2 mm wide, glabrous, terete; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules apparently absent even from the youngest leaves. Pedicel present, 2-2.2 mm long, glabrous. Bracteoles absent. Calyx 2.2-3 mm long, not accrescent, glabrous, ribbed; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 6.2-7 mm long, multicoloured, yellow, mostly red or brown, with some red or brown spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 6-6.8 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 4.5-6 mm long, not auriculate, keel 5-5.7 mm long, beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.3-0.6 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 4.5-5 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, glabrous; style 5.8-6 mm long, glabrous, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), sessile or subsessile, not constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, beaked. Flowers in August and September. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Mallee and Esperance IBRA regions.
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Esperance Plains, Mallee.
- IBRA Subregions
- Fitzgerald, Western Mallee.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Kondinin, Kulin, Lake Grace, Ravensthorpe.