- Reference
- Fl.Australia 17A:358 (2000)
- Conservation Code
- Priority Three
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Spreading shrub (with emergent flowering branches), 2.5-3 m high. Fl. pink, Jun to Oct. Loamy sand, granite. Base of outcrops, crevices.
Scientific Description
Shrubs, 2.5-3 m high; branchlets glabrous or hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 120-200 mm long, hairy, on the abaxial surface, the hairs straight; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, divided to the midrib; lobes 30-120 mm long, 0.5-1 mm wide, the margins recurved or revolute, exposing the lower surface of the leaf blade or enclosing the lower surface of the leaf blade, forming a groove either side of the midvein. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, red or pink; pedicels 1-3 mm long. Perianth 8-10 mm long; tepals some joined and some free after flower opens, glabrous; ovary hairy or glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 1-2 mm long; pistil 16-18 mm long, white, red or pink, pollen presenter conical, style hairy or glabrous. Follicles glabrous, viscid, dehiscent, 7-9 mm long. Flowers in June, July, August, September or October. Occurs in the Eremaean (ER) Botanical Province(s), in the Coolgardie (COO), Avon Wheatbelt (AW) or Mallee (MAL) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Priority Three (P3).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Mallee.
- IBRA Subregions
- Merredin, Southern Cross, Western Mallee.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Coolgardie, Kulin, Mount Marshall.