- Reference
- Austral.Syst.Bot. 15:703 (2002)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Spreading shrub, to 0.8 m high. Fl. orange, Sep to Nov. Yellow-brown sand over laterite. Undulating landscapes.
Scientific Description
Shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, not spiny, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, opposite, continuous with stem, 20-30 mm long, 9-15 mm wide, glabrous, flat with recurved margins or flat with incurved margins (conduplicate); margins entire; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present and persistent to older leaves, 4.5-8 mm long, without glands, ribless. Pedicel present, 1-1.5 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present but early deciduous. Calyx 4-6 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 7-10.5 mm long, uniformly coloured, orange; claws absent; standard 9-10 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 7.3-8 mm long, not auriculate, keel 8-8.5 mm long, not beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.3-0.5 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 6-7.5 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, hairy or glandular; style 8.5-9 mm long, hairy or glandular towards the base, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), stipitate, not constricted between the seeds, round in cross-section, not beaked. Flowers in September, October and November. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest and Esperance IBRA regions.
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest.
- IBRA Subregions
- Fitzgerald, Katanning, Northern Jarrah Forest.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Moora, Northam, Quairading, Ravensthorpe, York.