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Synaphea stenoloba A.S.George

Reference
Fl.Australia 16:495 (1995)
Conservation Code
Threatened
A taxon name retains its ‘Threatened’ status until a new name has been officially endorsed and appears in the Gazettal Notice.
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Caespitose shrub, 0.3-0.45 m high. Fl. yellow, Aug to Oct. Sandy or sandy clay soils. Winter-wet flats, granite.

Helen Coleman, Descriptive Catalogue, 5 March 1998
Image

Scientific Description

Shrubs; branchlets hairy. Leaves alternate, 150-280 mm long, glabrous; petiole glabrous; lamina terete or flat, twice or more divided, pinnately divided, deeply divided or divided to the midrib; distance from base of leaf to lowest lobe 100-160 mm; terminal leaf lobe 5-55 mm long, 2-4 mm wide; lowest lobes 45-90 mm long. Inflorescences yellow; scape 220-330 mm long; floral bracts 1.5-2 mm long. Perianth 5-6 mm long, glabrous; adaxial tepal 5-6 mm long; abaxial tepal 4.2-4.5 mm long; ovary hairy, style glabrous; style including stigmatic disc 3.5-4 mm long, horned; stigma 1-1.2 mm long, 1-1.5 mm wide. Follicles 5-6 mm long. Flowers in August, September or October. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Swan Coastal Plain (SWA) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Threatened (T).

C. Hollister and K.R. Thiele, 19 January 2024

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Swan Coastal Plain.
IBRA Subregions
Perth.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Murray, Waroona.