- Reference
- Fl.Australia 17A:497 (2000)
- Conservation Code
- Priority Three
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Erect or spreading shrub, 1.5 m high. Fl. red/green/red&green, Oct. Red sandy clay over ironstone. Winter wet flats.
Scientific Description
Shrubs, 1-1.5 m high; branchlets glabrous or hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 30-60 mm long, 8-25 mm wide, hairy or glabrous, on the abaxial surface, the hairs straight; lamina flat, widest around the middle, once divided, tripartitely divided or divided only at the apex, entire, shallowly divided or divided to the midrib; lobes 4-10 mm long, 5-7 mm wide, the margins flat or recurved. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, green, white or red; pedicels 3-4 mm long. Perianth 3-6 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, hairy, simple-hairy; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 1.5-2 mm long; pistil 8-11 mm long, green, white or red, pollen presenter oblique, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 13-14 mm long. Flowers in October, November or December. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Jarrah Forest (JF) or Warren (WAR) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Priority Three (P3).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain, Warren.
- IBRA Subregions
- Perth, Southern Jarrah Forest, Warren.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Augusta Margaret River, Busselton, Nannup.