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Synaphea brachyceras R.Butcher

Reference
Nuytsia 13:266-270,Fig.1 (2000)
Conservation Code
Priority Three
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Small, rounded, prostrate shrub, to 0.3 m high, to 0.4 m wide. Fl. yellow, Aug to Oct. Grey sand, gravel. Flats, slight slopes, shrubby woodland.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 8 June 1999
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Scientific Description

Shrubs; branchlets hairy. Leaves alternate, 110-235 mm long, hairy; petiole hairy; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided or tripartitely divided, entire, shallowly divided or divided to the midrib, indumentum appressed; distance from base of leaf to lowest lobe 60-230 mm; terminal leaf lobe 6-15 mm long, 2-6 mm wide; lowest lobes 50-65 mm long. Inflorescences yellow; scape 170-320 mm long; floral bracts 1.5-2 mm long. Perianth 5-6 mm long, hairy; adaxial tepal 5-6 mm long; abaxial tepal 4-4.5 mm long; ovary hairy, style glabrous; style including stigmatic disc 3.8-4 mm long, horned; stigma 1.5 mm long, 0.8 mm wide. Follicles 4-5 mm long. Flowers in August, September or October. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Avon Wheatbelt (AW) or Jarrah Forest (JF) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Priority Three (P3).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest.
IBRA Subregions
Katanning, Northern Jarrah Forest.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Wagin, West Arthur.