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Leptosema cervicorne Crisp

This name is not current. Find out more information on related names.

Reference
Austral.Syst.Bot. 12:38-41, Fig. 19 (1999)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Not Current

Shrub, 0.2-0.5 m high. Fl. red/green-red/cream, Jul to Sep or Dec or Jan. Yellow or red sand, gravelly clay sand. Sand dunes, flats, sandplains.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 1 October 1997

Scientific Description

Erect, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems flattened or winged, not spiny, glabrous; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades absent or apparently so (reduced to scales), alternate, continuous with stem, hairy, with simple hairs, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent, 2-4.5; pustules or glands absent. Stipules apparently absent even from the youngest leaves. Pedicel present, 3-5 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present and persistent, 4-4.5 mm long, hairy, not striate. Calyx 26-29 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 26-31 mm long, uniformly coloured, red; claws absent, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 19-25(-26) mm long, not auriculate, keel 20-23 mm long, not beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 2.3 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 15-23 mm long. Ovary stipitate, hairy or glandular; style 30-38 mm long, hairy or glandular towards the base, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), sessile or subsessile, not constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, not beaked. Flowers in January, July, August, September and December. Occurs in the Eremaean Botanical Province, in the Murchison and Coolgardie IBRA regions.