- Reference
- Fragm. (Mueller) 6:206 (1868)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Spreading, occasionally lax shrub, 0.3-0.6(-1) m high. Fl. red, Apr or Jun or Aug to Sep. Gravelly clay or loam, sand.
Scientific Description
Shrubs, 0.30-0.60 m high; branchlets hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 10-20 mm long, 1-2 mm wide, hairy, on the adaxial or abaxial surface, the hairs straight; lamina subterete, entire, enclosing the lower surface of the leaf blade, forming a single groove. Inflorescences axillary, orange or red; pedicels 4-6 mm long. Perianth 8-12 mm long; tepals fused (at least at base) after flower opens, hairy, simple-hairy; ovary hairy, sessile; pistil 18-25 mm long, orange or red, pollen presenter lateral, style hairy. Follicles hairy, not viscid, dehiscent, 10-12 mm long. Flowers in April, May, June, July, August or September. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Mallee (MAL) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Mallee.
- IBRA Subregions
- Eastern Mallee, Fitzgerald, Katanning, Merredin, Recherche, Western Mallee.
- IMCRA Regions
- WA South Coast.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Cranbrook, Dumbleyung, Esperance, Kent, Kondinin, Kulin, Lake Grace, Ravensthorpe, Trayning, York.