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Synaphea damopsis A.S.George

Reference
Fl.Australia 16:489 (1995)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Decumbent shrub. Fl. yellow, Sep to Nov. Lateritic gravel.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 10 July 1996
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Scientific Description

Shrubs; branchlets hairy. Leaves alternate, 150-280 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 120-230 mm; terminal leaf lobe 6-7 mm long, 4-7 mm wide; lowest lobes 15-35 mm long. Inflorescences yellow; scape 80-390 mm long; floral bracts 2-2.5 mm long. Perianth 5-6 mm long, glabrous or hairy; adaxial tepal 5-6 mm long; abaxial tepal 4.5-5 mm long; ovary hairy, style glabrous; style including stigmatic disc 2.5-3 mm long, strongly concave; stigma 1-1.2 mm long, 1 mm wide. Follicles 5-5.5 mm long. Flowers in September, October or November. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Jarrah Forest (JF) or Warren (WAR) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Jarrah Forest, Warren.
IBRA Subregions
Northern Jarrah Forest, Southern Jarrah Forest, Warren.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Augusta Margaret River, Beverley, Collie, Serpentine-Jarrahdale, Wandering, West Arthur, Williams.