- Reference
- Bot.Jahrb.Syst. 35:157-158 (1904)
- 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
Shrub, 0.9-1.5 m high. Fl. white, Sep. Sand.
Scientific Description
Shrubs, 1-1.5 m high; branchlets glabrous or hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 20-40 mm long, hairy, on the abaxial surface, the hairs straight; lamina flat, twice or more divided, tripartitely divided, divided to the midrib; lobes 10-30 mm long, 1.5-2.5 mm wide, the margins recurved. Inflorescences axillary, white or cream; pedicels 4-7 mm long. Perianth 2-3 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, glabrous; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 0.5-1 mm long; pistil 3-4 mm long, white or cream, pollen presenter conical, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 8-9 mm long. Flowers in August or September. Occurs in the Eremaean (ER) or South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Yalgoo (YAL), Geraldton Sandplains (GS) or Avon Wheatbelt (AW) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Threatened (T).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains.
- IBRA Subregions
- Geraldton Hills, Lesueur Sandplain, Merredin.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Greater Geraldton, Mingenew, Three Springs.