- Reference
- Trans.Linn.Soc.London 10:209 (1810)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Lignotuberous tree or shrub, 0.4-10 m high, with epicormic buds. Fl. yellow, Oct to Dec or Jan to Feb. White, yellow, brown or pale red sand, sometimes over laterite. Sand dunes, sandplains.
Scientific Description
Trees or Shrubs, 2-4(-10) m high; branchlets hairy. Leaves petiolate, alternate, 90-175 mm long, 7-15 mm wide, hairy; petiole 20-30 mm long; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, shallowly divided, teeth distinctly pointing towards the apex, with 12-24 lobes on each side, the margins revolute. Inflorescences hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), green or yellow, hairy. Perianth 20-25 mm long, glabrous, without awns; pistil 20-27 mm long, curved, style glabrous. Follicles hairy, hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), elliptic, 20-35 mm long. Flowers in January, February, October, November or December. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Warren (WAR) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Swan Coastal Plain, Warren.
- IBRA Subregions
- Dandaragan Plateau, Fitzgerald, Geraldton Hills, Katanning, Lesueur Sandplain, Merredin, Northern Jarrah Forest, Perth, Southern Jarrah Forest, Warren, Western Mallee.
- IMCRA Regions
- Central West Coast.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Albany, Armadale, Beverley, Boyup Brook, Busselton, Canning, Capel, Carnamah, Claremont, Collie, Coorow, Cranbrook, Cuballing, Dalwallinu, Dandaragan, Denmark, Dowerin, Dumbleyung, Gingin, Gnowangerup, Goomalling, Gosnells, Greater Geraldton, Harvey, Irwin, Jerramungup, Joondalup, Kalamunda, Kojonup, Kwinana, Mandurah, Manjimup, Moora, Murray, Nannup, Northam, Northampton, Perth, Pingelly, Plantagenet, Quairading, Ravensthorpe, Serpentine-Jarrahdale, Shark Bay, South Perth, Stirling, Swan, Tammin, Three Springs, Toodyay, Victoria Plains, Wandering, Wanneroo, Waroona, West Arthur, Wickepin, Wongan-Ballidu, Woodanilling, York.