- Reference
- Ewart & O.B.Davies, Fl.N.Territory 83 (1917)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Shrub or tree, 2-4(-6) m high. Fl. pink-cream, Nov to Dec or Jan to Mar. Sand, gravel.
Scientific Description
Trees, 2-3 m high; branchlets glabrous or hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 150-400 mm long, hairy or glabrous, on the adaxial or abaxial surface, the hairs straight; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, divided to the midrib; lobes 30-150 mm long, 10-40 mm wide, the margins flat. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, cream or pink; pedicels 5-7 mm long. Perianth 8-10 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, glabrous; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 10-12 mm long; pistil 28-34 mm long, cream or pink, pollen presenter lateral, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 24-33 mm long. Flowers in January, February, March, November or December. Occurs in the Northern (N) Botanical Province(s), in the Victoria Bonaparte (VB) or Central Kimberley (CK) IBRA subregion(s).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Central Kimberley, Victoria Bonaparte.
- IBRA Subregions
- Keep, Pentecost.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Derby-West Kimberley, Wyndham-East Kimberley.