- Reference
- Nuytsia 12(1):130-131 (1998)
- Conservation Code
- Priority Two
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Erect shrub, 0.25-0.7 m high, flowers 4-merous, cymes sessile, staminal filaments tuberculate. Fl. pink, Aug. Sandy clay or gravel. Upper slopes, edges of lateritic breakaways.
Scientific Description
Shrub, spines absent; branchlets smooth, without distinct raised glands, +/- cylindrical in cross-section, covered in hairs or scales, the hairs stellate (star-shaped). Leaves opposite, simple, 6-10 mm long, 3-7 mm wide, flat, the margins recurved, smooth, without distinct raised glands, covered in hairs or scales, with stellate (star shaped) hairs; stipular excrescences absent. Flowers in terminal, loose clusters (cymes or panicles); calyx present, 3-6 mm long, smooth, without distinct raised glands, covered in hairs or scales, the hairs stellate (star-shaped); corolla pink, petals four, 5-9 mm long, imbricate (overlapping), free, glabrous; stamens twice as many as petals, warty with prominent raised glands, glabrous, with an appendage. Flowers in August. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Jarrah Forest and Geraldton IBRA region(s). Conservation Code: Priority Two (P2).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest.
- IBRA Subregions
- Lesueur Sandplain, Northern Jarrah Forest.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Coorow, Dandaragan, Toodyay.