- Reference
- Fl.Australia 17A:504 (2000)
- Conservation Code
- Priority Three
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Erect shrub, to 0.9 m high. Fl. cream-yellow, Jul to Sep. Sand, sandy clay, gravel, laterite. Sandplain, slopes, road verges.
Scientific Description
Shrubs, 1.5-3 m high; branchlets hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 10-45 mm long, 1-7 mm wide, hairy, on the abaxial surface, the hairs straight; lamina flat, widest around the middle, entire, the margins recurved or revolute, exposing the lower surface of the leaf blade or enclosing the lower surface of the leaf blade, forming a single groove. Inflorescences terminal, white, cream or yellow; pedicels 10-14 mm long. Perianth 4-6 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, hairy, simple-hairy; ovary hairy, sessile or stipitate, the stipe 0-0.5 mm long; pistil 4-6 mm long, white, cream or yellow, pollen presenter lateral, style hairy. Follicles hairy, not viscid, dehiscent, 13 mm long. Flowers in August, September, October, November or December. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA) or Jarrah Forest (JF) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Priority Three (P3).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain.
- IBRA Subregions
- Dandaragan Plateau, Lesueur Sandplain, Northern Jarrah Forest.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Chittering, Coorow, Dandaragan, Gingin, Victoria Plains.