- Reference
- J.Roy.Soc.Western Australia 19:81 (1934)
- Conservation Code
- Priority Three
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Low spreading shrub, 0.4-0.6 m high, up to 3 m wide. Fl. orange-brown, Apr or Jul to Oct. Sand, clay loam. Granite outcrops.
Scientific Description
Shrubs, 0.5-1 m high; branchlets hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 15-50 mm long, glabrous; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, divided to the midrib; lobes 5-25 mm long, 0.5-1.5 mm wide, the margins revolute, enclosing the lower surface of the leaf blade, forming a single groove. Inflorescences terminal, orange; pedicels 2-3 mm long. Perianth 10-14 mm long; tepals some joined and some free after flower opens, glabrous; ovary hairy, stipitate, the stipe 0.5-2.5 mm long; pistil 25-30 mm long, orange, pollen presenter oblique, style glabrous. Follicles glandular hairy, not viscid, dehiscent, 11-14 mm long. Flowers in August, September or October. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Geraldton Sandplains (GS) or Avon Wheatbelt (AW) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Priority Three (P3).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Avon Wheatbelt.
- IBRA Subregions
- Merredin.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Dalwallinu, Greater Geraldton, Morawa, Wongan-Ballidu.