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Brunonia sp. Long hairs (D.E. Symon 2440)

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

Erect herb, to 0.07 m high, with long spreading hairs on the leaves; spike to 0.3 m high. Along creeklines.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 8 February 2000

Scientific Description

Stems unribbed. Leaves flat, 25-90 mm long, 6-17 mm wide, Indumentum present, with dense, simple hairs; margins entire. Pedicel absent (flowers sessile). Calyx lobes present, Calyx length 4-6 mm long, hairy, simple hairs. Corolla blue, 8-10 mm long, without auricles, not spurred, hairy on the outside, with dense, simple hairs, glabrous on the inside, without wings, wingless. Anthers free. Ovary superior, not gibbose; style 5-6.5 mm long, hairy; indusium single, hairy; ovules one or two. Flowers in April and July. Occurs in the Pilbara (PIL), Central Ranges (CR) and Gascoyne (GAS) IBRA Region(s), of the Eremaean (E) Botanical Province.

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Central Ranges, Gascoyne, Pilbara.
IBRA Subregions
Augustus, Hamersley, Mann-Musgrave Block.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Ashburton, East Pilbara, Ngaanyatjarraku.