- Reference
- Proc.Roy.Soc.Victoria 22:14-15,Tab.8 (1909)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Small tree or shrub, (1.5-)2-8 m high. Fl. cream-yellow, Jul or Dec or Jan to Feb. Sand & gravel, gravelly red loam.
Scientific Description
Trees or Shrubs, 2-7 m high; branchlets hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 90-175 mm long, hairy, on the adaxial or abaxial surface, the hairs straight; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, divided to the midrib; lobes 40-150 mm long, 0.7-2 mm wide, the margins revolute, enclosing the lower surface of the leaf blade, forming a groove either side of the midvein. Inflorescences terminal, cream or yellow; pedicels 1-1.5 mm long. Perianth 3-5 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, hairy, simple-hairy; ovary hairy or glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 1-1.5 mm long; pistil 10.5-13 mm long, white or cream, pollen presenter oblique, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 10-17 mm long. Flowers in January, February or December. Occurs in the Eremaean (ER) Botanical Province(s), in the Pilbara (PIL), Carnarvon (CAR), Gascoyne (GAS), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Gibson Desert (GD), Central Ranges (CR) or Murchison (MUR) IBRA subregion(s).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Carnarvon, Central Ranges, Gascoyne, Gibson Desert, Little Sandy Desert, Murchison, Pilbara.
- IBRA Subregions
- Ashburton, Augustus, Cape Range, Carnegie, Chichester, Eastern Murchison, Hamersley, Lateritic Plain, Mann-Musgrave Block, Roebourne, Rudall, Trainor, Western Murchison.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Ashburton, Cue, East Pilbara, Karratha, Laverton, Leonora, Meekatharra, Menzies, Mount Magnet, Murchison, Ngaanyatjarraku, Sandstone, Upper Gascoyne, Wiluna.