- Reference
- Bot.Jahrb.Syst. 35:151 (1904)
- Conservation Code
- Priority Four
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Divaricately branched shrub, 0.3-2.6 m high. Fl. red, May or Jul to Nov. Gravelly or granitic soils. Gravel rises, granite outcrops.
Scientific Description
Shrubs, 0.3-2 m high; branchlets hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 7-10 mm long, 8-18 mm wide, hairy, on the adaxial or abaxial surface, the hairs straight; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, shallowly divided or deeply divided, the margins flat. Inflorescences terminal, red; pedicels 5-10 mm long. Perianth 12-15 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, hairy, simple-hairy; ovary hairy, stipitate, the stipe 0.7-1 mm long; pistil 15-19 mm long, red, pollen presenter lateral, style hairy. Follicles hairy, not viscid, dehiscent, 9-10 mm long. Flowers in May, June, July, August, September, October or November. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Avon Wheatbelt (AW) or Mallee (MAL) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Priority Four (P4).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Avon Wheatbelt, Mallee.
- IBRA Subregions
- Katanning, Merredin, Western Mallee.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Bruce Rock, Corrigin, Kondinin, Kulin, Lake Grace, Merredin, Narembeen, Quairading.