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Synaphea sparsiflora A.S.George

Reference
Fl.Australia 16:494 (1995)
Conservation Code
Priority Two
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Shrub, to 0.6 m high, to 1 m wide. Fl. yellow, Aug to Sep. Sandy loam over laterite.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 12 September 1995
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Scientific Description

Shrubs; branchlets hairy. Leaves alternate, 160-230 mm long, hairy; petiole hairy; lamina flat, twice or more divided, tripartitely divided, deeply divided, indumentum appressed; distance from base of leaf to lowest lobe 70-130 mm; terminal leaf lobe 10-25 mm long, 5-8 mm wide; lowest lobes 30-60 mm long. Inflorescences yellow; scape 180-250 mm long; floral bracts 2-2.5 mm long. Perianth 6-8 mm long, hairy; adaxial tepal 6-8 mm long; abaxial tepal 5-5.8 mm long; ovary hairy, style glabrous; style including stigmatic disc 3-4.5 mm long, lobed; stigma 1-1.5 mm long, 1 mm wide. Follicles 7.5-8 mm long. Flowers in August or September. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Geraldton Sandplains (GS) or Swan Coastal Plain (SWA) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Priority Two (P2).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Geraldton Sandplains, Swan Coastal Plain.
IBRA Subregions
Dandaragan Plateau, Lesueur Sandplain.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Carnamah, Dandaragan, Three Springs, Victoria Plains.