- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Erect to decumbent annual or perennial, herb, 0.2 m high, leaves obovate, broad and flat. Fl. yellow, Aug or Oct to Dec or Jan. Sandy loam, clay, mud, gravel, granite, laterite. Sandplains, wet sites, gullies, ridges, slopes.
Scientific Description
Stems unribbed. Leaves flat, 30-75 mm long, 5-12 mm wide, Indumentum absent (leaves glabrous); margins entire or toothed. Bracteoles absent. Pedicel pedicellate, Pedicel length the pedicels 15-25 mm long, glabrous. Calyx lobes present, Calyx length 1.5-3 mm long, hairy, with sparse, simple hairs. Corolla yellow, 10-16 mm long, without auricles, not spurred, hairy on the outside, with sparse, glandular hairs, glabrous on the inside; central lobes 3.8-4.2 mm long, with wings; outer lobes 6-9 mm long, wing present on both sides and clearly unequal, 1.6-2.5 mm wide on the narrower side, 1.4-2.8 mm wide on the broader side. Anthers free. Ovary inferior, not gibbose; style 5-5.5 mm long, glabrous; indusium single, hairy; ovules more than two. Flowers in January, August, September, October and November. Occurs in the Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL) and Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA Region(s), of the South West (SW) Botanical Province.
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee.
- IBRA Subregions
- Eastern Mallee, Fitzgerald, Katanning, Northern Jarrah Forest, Southern Jarrah Forest, Western Mallee.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Beverley, Boyup Brook, Corrigin, Cranbrook, Cuballing, Donnybrook-Balingup, Dumbleyung, Esperance, Kent, Kulin, Mundaring, Narrogin, Northam, Pingelly, Plantagenet, Ravensthorpe, Toodyay, Wagin, Wandering, West Arthur, Wickepin, Woodanilling, York.