- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Erect shrub, 0.2-0.8 m high. Fl. pink-purple-blue, Aug to Nov. Gravel. Lateritic outcrops, ironstone ridges, creek beds.
Scientific Description
Shrub, spines absent; branchlets smooth, without distinct raised glands, +/- cylindrical in cross-section, glabrous. Leaves opposite, simple, 5-10 mm long, 0.5-1 mm wide, flat, the margins flat, smooth, without distinct raised glands, glabrous. Flowers in a distinct head not surrounded by bracts or in terminal, loose clusters (cymes or panicles); pedicels 4-5 mm long; calyx present, 3.5-4 mm long, smooth, without distinct raised glands, covered in hairs or scales, the hairs stellate (star-shaped); corolla pink, purple or blue, petals five, 8-9 mm long, imbricate (overlapping), free, glabrous; stamens twice as many as petals, 3-4 mm long, smooth, ciliate (with a marginal fringe of hairs); anthers 0.7 mm long, with an appendage. Flowers in August, September, October and November. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Jarrah Forest IBRA region(s).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Jarrah Forest.
- IBRA Subregions
- Northern Jarrah Forest, Southern Jarrah Forest.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Chittering, Toodyay, Victoria Plains, West Arthur.