- Reference
- Nuytsia 15(1):93-96,Fig.2 (2002)
- Conservation Code
- Priority One
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Low, spreading to decumbent shrub, to 1 m high. Fl. red, Aug to Sep. Yellow sand with some ironstone or laterite gravel. Base of sandhill, beside track.
Scientific Description
Shrubs, 0.5-1 m high; branchlets hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 40-60 mm long, hairy, on the abaxial surface, the hairs straight; lamina flat, twice or more divided, pinnately divided, divided to the midrib; lobes 10-25 mm long, 1-1.5 mm wide, the margins revolute, enclosing the lower surface of the leaf blade, forming a groove either side of the midvein. Inflorescences terminal, red; pedicels 4-4.5 mm long. Perianth 8-9 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, hairy, simple-hairy; ovary hairy, stipitate, the stipe 0.5-1 mm long; pistil 23-25 mm long, red, pollen presenter lateral or oblique, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 11-12 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 One (P1).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Murchison.
- IBRA Subregions
- Eastern Murchison.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Mount Magnet.