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Synaphea sp. Fairbridge Farm (D. Papenfus 696)

Conservation Code
Threatened
A taxon name retains its ‘Threatened’ status until a new name has been officially endorsed and appears in the Gazettal Notice.
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Dense, clumped shrub, to 0.3 m high, to 0.4 m wide. Fl. yellow, Oct. Sandy with lateritic pebbles. Near winter-wet flats, in low woodland with weedy grasses.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 8 June 1999
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Scientific Description

Shrubs; branchlets hairy. Leaves alternate, 120-240 mm long, hairy; petiole hairy; lamina terete or flat, once divided or twice or more divided, pinnately divided or tripartitely divided, deeply divided or divided to the midrib, indumentum appressed; distance from base of leaf to lowest lobe 75-150 mm; terminal leaf lobe 10-50 mm long, 1.5-8 mm wide; lowest lobes 20-70 mm long. Inflorescences yellow; scape 105-420 mm long; floral bracts 2-3 mm long. Perianth 5-6 mm long, hairy; adaxial tepal 5-6 mm long; abaxial tepal 4-5.2 mm long; ovary hairy, style glabrous; style including stigmatic disc 3-3.5 mm long, lobed; stigma 0.8-1 mm long, 0.6-0.8 mm wide. Follicles 6.5-8.5 mm long. Flowers in September or October. Occurs in the in the Swan Coastal Plain (SWA) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Threatened (T).

C. Hollister and K.R. Thiele, 19 January 2024

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain.
IBRA Subregions
Perth, Southern Jarrah Forest.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Canning, Dardanup, Gosnells, Murray, Serpentine-Jarrahdale.