- Reference
- Fl.Australia 17A:494 (2000)
- Conservation Code
- Priority Two
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Low, multi-stemmed, spreading to weakly erect shrub, 0.15-0.5 m high. Fl. purple-red, Dec or Jan to Mar. Sandy loam, sandstone. Level sites near ridges.
Scientific Description
Shrubs, 0.30-0.50 m high; branchlets hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, (30-)50-90(-100) mm long, (8-)20-25(-40) mm wide, hairy, on the abaxial surface, the hairs curled; lamina flat, clearly widest above the middle, once divided, shallowly divided; lobes 1-5 mm long, 3-8 mm wide, the margins flat. Inflorescences terminal, red. Perianth hairy, simple-hairy; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 1-1.5 mm long; pistil 33-40 mm long, red or purple, pollen presenter erect, style hairy. Follicles not viscid, dehiscent, 1 mm long. Flowers in January, February, March or December. Occurs in the Northern (N) Botanical Province(s), in the Northern Kimberley (NK) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Priority Two (P2).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Northern Kimberley.
- IBRA Subregions
- Mitchell.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Wyndham-East Kimberley.