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Synaphea tamminensis A.S.George

Reference
Fl.Australia 16:495 (1995)
Conservation Code
Priority Two
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Shrub. Fl. yellow, Aug to Sep. Sandy loam over laterite.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 11 July 1996

Scientific Description

Shrubs; branchlets glabrous. Leaves alternate, 100-255 mm long, hairy; petiole hairy; lamina flat, twice or more divided, pinnately divided, deeply divided or divided to the midrib, indumentum appressed; distance from base of leaf to lowest lobe 50-150 mm; terminal leaf lobe 10-20 mm long, 1.5-3 mm wide; lowest lobes 35-60 mm long. Inflorescences yellow; scape 185-320 mm long; floral bracts 2-2.5 mm long. Perianth 5.5-6 mm long, glabrous; adaxial tepal 5.5-6 mm long; abaxial tepal 3.2 mm long; ovary hairy, style glabrous; style including stigmatic disc 2-2.5 mm long, entire; stigma 0.8 mm long, 1 mm wide. Follicles 2 mm long. Flowers in August or September. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Avon Wheatbelt (AW) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Priority Two (P2).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt.
IBRA Subregions
Katanning.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Tammin.