- Reference
- Hooker's J.Bot.Kew Gard.Misc. 7:74-75 (1855)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Spreading to erect, prickly shrub, 0.6-2 m high. Fl. white-cream-yellow, Jan to Feb or Jun to Nov. White or grey sand, sandy gravel.
Scientific Description
Shrubs, 1-2 m high; branchlets hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 10-30 mm long, 12-30 mm wide, hairy, on the abaxial surface, the hairs straight; lamina flat, clearly widest above the middle, once divided, tripartitely divided or divided only at the apex, shallowly divided or divided to the midrib; lobes 7-15 mm long, 1-1.5 mm wide, the margins recurved. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, white or cream; pedicels 5-7 mm long. Perianth 3-4 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, glabrous; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 1-2 mm long; pistil 3-4 mm long, white, pollen presenter erect, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 8-11 mm long. Flowers in January, February, June, July, August, September, October or November. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Geraldton Sandplains (GS) or Swan Coastal Plain (SWA) IBRA subregion(s).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Geraldton Sandplains, Swan Coastal Plain.
- IBRA Subregions
- Lesueur Sandplain, Perth.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Dandaragan.