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Synaphea aephynsa A.S.George

Reference
Fl.Australia 16:487 (1995)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect, tufted shrub, to 0.3 m high. Fl. yellow, Jul to Oct. Gravelly laterite, sand over laterite.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 10 July 1996
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Scientific Description

Shrubs; branchlets hairy. Leaves alternate, 90-230 mm long, hairy; petiole hairy; lamina flat, once divided or twice or more divided, tripartitely divided, deeply divided, indumentum appressed; distance from base of leaf to lowest lobe 105-150 mm; terminal leaf lobe 10-25 mm long, 5-8 mm wide; lowest lobes 20-60 mm long. Inflorescences yellow; scape 195-375 mm long; floral bracts 1.5-2 mm long. Perianth 5-6 mm long, glabrous; adaxial tepal 5-6 mm long; abaxial tepal 4-4.5 mm long; ovary hairy, style glabrous; style including stigmatic disc 3.5-4 mm long, lobed; stigma 1-1.2 mm long, 0.8-1 mm wide. Flowers in July, August, September or October. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA) or Jarrah Forest (JF) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Priority Three (P3).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain.
IBRA Subregions
Dandaragan Plateau, Lesueur Sandplain, Northern Jarrah Forest.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Beverley, Carnamah, Coorow, Dandaragan, Gingin, Irwin, Three Springs.