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Synaphea grandis A.S.George

Reference
Fl.Australia 16:490 (1995)
Conservation Code
Priority Four
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Tufted shrub, ca 0.3 m high. Fl. yellow, Oct to Nov. Laterite.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 10 July 1996

Scientific Description

Shrubs; branchlets hairy. Leaves alternate, 130-365 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 75-250 mm; terminal leaf lobe 10-35 mm long, 2-8 mm wide; lowest lobes 45-90 mm long. Inflorescences yellow; scape 330-550 mm long; floral bracts 2-2.5 mm long. Perianth 5.5-7 mm long, glabrous; adaxial tepal 5.5-7 mm long; abaxial tepal 5.5-6.6 mm long; ovary hairy, style glabrous; style including stigmatic disc 4.5-6 mm long, strongly concave; stigma 1.5-2.2 mm long, 1-1.2 mm wide. Follicles 7-7.2 mm long. Flowers in October or November. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW) or Jarrah Forest (JF) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Priority Four (P4).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain.
IBRA Subregions
Dandaragan Plateau, Katanning, Northern Jarrah Forest, Perth.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Chittering, Gingin, Toodyay, Victoria Plains.