- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Erect shrub, to 1.5 m high, leaves narrowly clavate, 5-8 mm long. Fl. white & cream & pink, Apr to Oct. Stony red-brown sandy loam, yellow sandy clay, red clay. Plains, gentle slopes, hillsides, gullies.
Scientific Description
Shrub, spines absent; branchlets smooth, without distinct raised glands, +/- cylindrical in cross-section, glabrous. Leaves opposite, simple, 4-7.5 mm long, 0.8-1 mm wide, flat, the margins revolute, verrucose (warty), glabrous; stipular excrescences present. Flowers terminal. solitary; pedicels 2.5-3.5 mm long; calyx present, 1-2 mm long, verrucose (warty), glabrous; corolla pink or white or cream, petals five, 6-8 mm long, imbricate (overlapping), free, glabrous; stamens twice as many as petals, 2-2.7 mm long, smooth, ciliate (with a marginal fringe of hairs); anthers 0.6-1.2 mm long, with an appendage. Flowers in April, May, June, July, August, September and October. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Avon Wheatbelt, Mallee and Esperance IBRA region(s).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Mallee.
- IBRA Subregions
- Eastern Mallee, Fitzgerald, Katanning, Merredin, Recherche, Western Mallee.
- IMCRA Regions
- WA South Coast.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Albany, Bruce Rock, Esperance, Jerramungup, Kondinin, Lake Grace, Ravensthorpe, Wagin.