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Synaphea oligantha A.S.George

Reference
Fl.Australia 16:492 (1995)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Tangled shrub, 0.15-0.45 m high. Fl. yellow, Jul to Oct. White or grey sand. Flats, dunes.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 10 July 1996
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Scientific Description

Shrubs; branchlets hairy. Leaves alternate, 75-240 mm long, hairy; petiole hairy; lamina terete or flat, twice or more divided, pinnately divided, divided to the midrib, indumentum appressed; distance from base of leaf to lowest lobe 35-140 mm; terminal leaf lobe 7-15 mm long, 2-3 mm wide; lowest lobes 45-80 mm long. Inflorescences yellow; scape 100-270 mm long; floral bracts 1.2-2 mm long. Perianth 4-4.8 mm long, hairy; adaxial tepal 4-4.8 mm long; abaxial tepal 3-3.4 mm long; ovary hairy, style glabrous; style including stigmatic disc 2.7-3.2 mm long, entire; stigma 1 mm long, 0.8-1 mm wide. Follicles 5-6 mm long. Flowers in July, August, September or October. Occurs in the Eremaean (ER) or South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Hampton (HAM), Mallee (MAL) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Esperance Plains, Hampton, Mallee.
IBRA Subregions
Eastern Mallee, Fitzgerald, Hampton, Recherche.
IMCRA Regions
WA South Coast.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Albany, Dundas, Esperance, Jerramungup, Ravensthorpe.