- Reference
- Bot.Jahrb.Syst. 35:153 (1904)
- Conservation Code
- Priority Four
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Intricately branched, spreading shrub, 0.6-2 m high. Fl. white/pink-white, Jun to Aug. Loam, gravel. Along drainage lines on rocky outcrops, creeklines.
Scientific Description
Shrubs; branchlets glabrous or hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 10-45 mm long, 0.5-1.5 mm wide, hairy; lamina flat, more or less the same width throughout, entire, the margins revolute, enclosing the lower surface of the leaf blade, forming a groove either side of the midvein. Inflorescences terminal, white, cream or grey; pedicels 3-5 mm long. Perianth 5-6 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, hairy, simple-hairy; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 1-1.5 mm long; pistil 9-12 mm long, white or pink, pollen presenter oblique, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 7.5-14 mm long. Flowers in July, August or September. Occurs in the Eremaean (ER) Botanical Province(s), in the Murchison (MUR) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Priority Four (P4).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Murchison.
- IBRA Subregions
- Eastern Murchison, Western Murchison.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Cue, Leonora, Meekatharra, Menzies, Mount Magnet, Sandstone, Wiluna.