- Reference
- Fl.Australia 17A:506 (2000)
- Conservation Code
- Priority One
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Non-lignotuberous, spreading shrub, 1-3 m high, to 1.5 m wide; branchlets and lower leaf surfaces hairy. Fl. white-cream, Aug to Oct. Yellow sand, loam. Dunes, road verge.
Scientific Description
Shrubs, 1-2.5 m high; branchlets glabrous, with a glaucous bloom or not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 8-15 mm long, 12-20 mm wide, hairy, on the abaxial surface, the hairs straight; lamina flat, clearly widest below the middle, once divided, pinnately divided, shallowly divided, the margins flat. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, white or cream; pedicels 8-11 mm long. Perianth 3-4.5 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, glabrous; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 1-1.5 mm long; pistil 3-4 mm long, white, pollen presenter conical, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 10-12 mm long. Flowers in August, September or October. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Geraldton Sandplains (GS) or Avon Wheatbelt (AW) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Priority One (P1).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains.
- IBRA Subregions
- Lesueur Sandplain, Merredin.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Carnamah, Coorow, Moora, Three Springs.