- Reference
- Nuytsia 12(1):129-130 (1998)
- Conservation Code
- Priority Three
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Erect shrub, 0.3-0.6 m high, flowers 4- and 5-merous, sepals strongly hirsute, staminal filaments smooth. Fl. pink/red, Sep to Nov. Sandy skeletal soils over granite. Among granite rocks.
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, 7-11 mm long, 1.5-3 mm wide, flat, the margins revolute or concave (curved inward), 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); pedicels 5-7 mm long; calyx present, 4 mm long, smooth, without distinct raised glands, covered in hairs or scales, the hairs stellate (star-shaped); corolla red or pink, petals four, 8-9 mm long, imbricate (overlapping), free, glabrous; stamens twice as many as petals, 2.2 mm long, warty with prominent raised glands, hairy, with an appendage. Flowers in September, October and November. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Mallee and Esperance IBRA region(s). Conservation Code: Priority Three (P3).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Esperance Plains, Mallee.
- IBRA Subregions
- Eastern Mallee, Recherche.
- IMCRA Regions
- WA South Coast.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Esperance.