- Reference
- Fragm. (Mueller) 4:85 (1864)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Spreading to erect, non-lignotuberous shrub, 1-4 m high. Fl. white-cream/yellow, Jun or Aug to Oct. Yellow or red sand. Sandplains.
Scientific Description
Shrubs, 2-4 m high; branchlets glabrous, with a glaucous bloom. Leaves alternate, 30-50 mm long, hairy, on the abaxial surface, the hairs straight; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, divided to the midrib; lobes 15-35 mm long, 1-2 mm wide, the margins revolute, enclosing the lower surface of the leaf blade, forming a groove either side of the midvein. Inflorescences terminal, cream or yellow; pedicels 5-7 mm long. Perianth 10-12 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, glabrous; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 4-6 mm long; pistil 30-35 mm long, red or pink, pollen presenter lateral or oblique, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 27-29 mm long. Flowers in June, July, August, September or October. Occurs in the Eremaean (ER) or South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Yalgoo (YAL) or Geraldton Sandplains (GS) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Priority Three (P3).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Geraldton Sandplains, Yalgoo.
- IBRA Subregions
- Edel, Geraldton Hills.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Chapman Valley, Northampton, Shark Bay.