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Lechenaultia aphylla D.A.Morrison

Reference
Fl.Australia 35:332 (1992)
Conservation Code
Priority One
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Small, tangled shrub, 0.3 m high, apparently leafless. Red sand. Slopes, drainage areas.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 4 December 2000

Scientific Description

Stems ribbed. Leaves flat, 0.5-1 mm long, 0-0.2 mm wide, Indumentum absent (leaves glabrous); margins entire. Bracteoles absent. Pedicel absent (flowers sessile). Calyx lobes present, Calyx length 1-1.5 mm long, glabrous. Corolla yellow, 15 mm long, without auricles, not spurred, glabrous on the outside, hairy on the inside; central lobes 18 mm long, with wings, wings present on both sides, 0.1 mm wide. Anthers free. Ovary inferior, not gibbose; style 8-9 mm long, glabrous; indusium single, hairy; ovules more than two. Occurs in the Great Victoria Desert (GVD) IBRA Region(s), of the Eremaean (E) Botanical Province. Conservation Code: Conservation code Priority One (P1).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Great Victoria Desert.
IBRA Subregions
Shield.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Laverton, Menzies.