- Reference
- Hooker's J.Bot.Kew Gard.Misc. 7:73-74 (1855)
- Conservation Code
- Priority Four
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Loose, spreading to erect shrub, 0.2-1.2 m high. Fl. white-cream/cream-yellow, Jan or Apr or Jun to Sep or Nov to Dec. White, grey, yellow or red sand, often with gravel & over laterite.
Scientific Description
Shrubs, 0.5-1 m high; branchlets hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 15-60 mm long, 5-20 mm wide, hairy, on the adaxial or abaxial surface, the hairs straight; lamina flat, clearly widest above the middle, once divided, tripartitely divided, shallowly divided; lobes 5-10 mm long, 0.5-2 mm wide, the margins flat. Inflorescences terminal, cream or yellow; pedicels 3-4.5 mm long. Perianth 3-4 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, hairy, glandular-hairy; ovary hairy, sessile; pistil 5-7 mm long, white or cream, pollen presenter conical, style glabrous. Follicles glandular hairy, not viscid, dehiscent, 11-12 mm long. Flowers in January, April, June, July, August, September, November or December. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Geraldton Sandplains (GS) or Swan Coastal Plain (SWA) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Priority Four (P4).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Coolgardie, Geraldton Sandplains, Swan Coastal Plain.
- IBRA Subregions
- Dandaragan Plateau, Lesueur Sandplain, Perth, Southern Cross.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Carnamah, Coorow, Dandaragan, Three Springs, Westonia.