Skip to main content

Service Notice

The Western Australian Herbarium’s collections management system, WAHerb, and DBCA’s taxonomic names application, WACensus, have been set to read-only mode since 1 October 2025. Recent taxonomic changes are not reflected in Florabase, herbarium collections, or in the census. We are hoping to be able to reinstate services around December 15; we will provide an update at that time.

The notice period started at 9:00 am on Wednesday, 1 October 2025 +08:00 and will end at 12:00 pm on Monday, 15 December 2025 +08:00.

Advanced Search

Brunonia sp. Goldfields (K.R. Newbey 6044)

Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Upright, spreading annual, herb, 0.05-0.12 m high. Fl. blue, Sep to Oct. Yellow-red-brown sand, clay, gravel, granite, laterite. Exposed flat apron, under Casuarinas.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 18 June 1999

Scientific Description

Stems unribbed. Leaves flat, 10-35 mm long, 2-6 mm wide, Indumentum present, with dense, simple hairs; margins entire. Bracteoles present, 3.5-5 mm long, hairy. Pedicel absent (flowers sessile). Calyx lobes present, Calyx length 2.8-3 mm long, hairy, with dense, simple hairs. Corolla blue, 7.2-9 mm long, without auricles, not spurred, hairy on the outside, with dense, simple hairs, hairy on the inside, without wings, wingless. Anthers free. Ovary superior, not gibbose; style 4.5-6 mm long, hairy; indusium single, hairy; ovules one or two. Flowers in September and October.

C. Hollister and K.R. Thiele, 2 August 2023

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Great Victoria Desert, Mallee, Murchison.
IBRA Subregions
Eastern Goldfield, Eastern Murchison, Fitzgerald, Merredin, Shield, Southern Cross, Western Mallee.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Coolgardie, Dundas, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Kondinin, Kulin, Menzies, Merredin, Morawa, Mount Magnet, Narembeen, Perenjori, Ravensthorpe, Westonia, Yalgoo, Yilgarn.