- Reference
- Nuytsia 1:371-372 (1974)
- Conservation Code
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Threatened
A taxon name retains its ‘Threatened’ status until a new name has been officially endorsed and appears in the Gazettal Notice.
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Sparingly branched, spreading to sprawling shrub, 0.2-0.6(-1) m high. Fl. red, Mar or May or Jul or Oct or Dec. Quartzitic sand. Sand dunes, quartzite boulders.
Scientific Description
Shrubs, 1 m high; branchlets hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 10-25 mm long, 10-20 mm wide, hairy or glabrous, on the abaxial surface, the hairs straight; lamina flat, widest around the middle or clearly widest above the middle, once divided, pinnately divided, entire or shallowly divided, the margins flat. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, red; pedicels 4-7 mm long. Perianth 8-12 mm long; tepals some joined and some free after flower opens, hairy, glandular-hairy; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 0.5-1 mm long; pistil 18-20 mm long, red, pollen presenter lateral, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 13-15 mm long. Flowers in October, November or December. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Threatened (T).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Esperance Plains.
- IBRA Subregions
- Fitzgerald.
- IMCRA Regions
- WA South Coast.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Gnowangerup, Ravensthorpe.