- Reference
- Fl.Australia 17A:505 (2000)
- Conservation Code
- Priority One
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Mounded to spreading or erect shrub, to 1.5 m high. Fl. white-cream-yellow, Aug to Oct. Sand, gravel.
Scientific Description
Shrubs, 1.5 m high; branchlets glabrous, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 50-120 mm long, hairy or glabrous, on the abaxial surface, the hairs straight; lamina flat, clearly widest above the middle, once divided, pinnately divided or tripartitely divided, shallowly divided or deeply divided; lobes 5-25 mm long, 5-10 mm wide, the margins flat or recurved. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, white or cream; pedicels 2 mm long. Perianth 3-4 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, glabrous; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 1.5-2 mm long; pistil 4-6 mm long, white or cream, pollen presenter conical, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 8-13 mm long. Flowers in August, September or October. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Jarrah Forest (JF) IBRA subregion(s).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain.
- IBRA Subregions
- Dandaragan Plateau, Katanning, Northern Jarrah Forest, Perth.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Chittering, Dandaragan, Gingin, Mundaring, Swan, Toodyay, Victoria Plains.