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Synaphea cervifolia A.S.George

Reference
Fl.Australia 16:488 (1995)
Conservation Code
Priority Two
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Shrub, to 0.3 m high. Fl. yellow, Jun to Oct. Sandy clay & gravel.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 10 July 1996
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Scientific Description

Shrubs; branchlets glabrous. Leaves alternate, 65-95 mm long, glabrous; petiole glabrous; lamina flat, twice or more divided, tripartitely divided, shallowly divided or deeply divided; distance from base of leaf to lowest lobe 35-90 mm; terminal leaf lobe 4-15 mm long, 1-5 mm wide; lowest lobes 30-55 mm long. Inflorescences yellow; scape 50-115 mm long; floral bracts 2-2.3 mm long. Perianth 4-5.5 mm long, glabrous; adaxial tepal 4-5.5 mm long; abaxial tepal 3.7-4 mm long; ovary hairy, style glabrous; style including stigmatic disc 2.5-3.5 mm long, lobed; stigma 0.7-1 mm long, 0.8-1.2 mm wide. Flowers in June, July, August, September or October. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Mallee (MAL) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Priority Two (P2).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Mallee.
IBRA Subregions
Western Mallee.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Dumbleyung, Kulin, Lake Grace.