- Reference
- Hooker's J.Bot.Kew Gard.Misc. 7:74 (1855)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Dense, intricately branched shrub, 0.5-1.5(-3) m high. Fl. white-cream, May to Oct. Sand over laterite, sandstone or granite, often with gravel.
Scientific Description
Shrubs, 1-3 m high; branchlets glabrous, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 50-110 mm long, glabrous; lamina flat, twice or more divided, pinnately divided or tripartitely divided, divided to the midrib; lobes 20-40 mm long, 0.5-1 mm wide, the margins revolute, enclosing the lower surface of the leaf blade, forming a groove either side of the midvein. Inflorescences terminal, white, cream or yellow; pedicels 4-6 mm long. Perianth 1-3 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, glabrous; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 1-1.5 mm long; pistil 4-5.5 mm long, white, pollen presenter conical, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 11-15 mm long. Flowers in May, June, July, August, September or October. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Geraldton Sandplains (GS) IBRA subregion(s).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Geraldton Sandplains.
- IBRA Subregions
- Geraldton Hills.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Chapman Valley, Greater Geraldton, Northampton.