- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Erect, tall, spindly annual or perennial, herb, leaves flat. Fl. yellow.
Scientific Description
Stems ribbed or unribbed. Leaves compressed, 15-30 mm long, 0.8-1.2 mm wide, Indumentum absent (leaves glabrous); margins entire. Bracteoles present, 4-7 mm long, glabrous. Pedicel pedicellate, Pedicel length the pedicels 13.5 mm long, glabrous. Calyx lobes present, hairy, with sparse, simple hairs. Corolla yellow, 7-10 mm long, without auricles, not spurred, hairy on the outside, with sparse, simple hairs, glabrous on the inside; central lobes 2-3.5 mm long, with wings; outer lobes 3.5-5.5 mm long, wings present on both sides, 0.5-1.3 mm wide. Anthers free. Ovary not gibbose; style 3.5-4 mm long, glabrous; indusium single, rarely hairy; ovules more than two. Occurs in the Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Jarrah Forest (JF), Warren (WAR) and Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA Region(s), of the South West (SW) Botanical Province.
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain, Warren.
- IBRA Subregions
- Fitzgerald, Lesueur Sandplain, Northern Jarrah Forest, Perth, Southern Jarrah Forest, Warren.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Augusta Margaret River, Bridgetown-Greenbushes, Busselton, Canning, Capel, Collie, Dandaragan, Gingin, Gosnells, Manjimup, Murray, Nannup, Plantagenet.