- Reference
- Bot.Jahrb.Syst. 35:152-153 (1904)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Erect, open shrub, 0.15-1 m high. Fl. white-cream-yellow, May to Dec. Sandy to gravelly lateritic soils.
Scientific Description
Shrubs, 0.30-0.60 m high; branchlets hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 5-20 mm long, 1 mm wide, hairy, on the adaxial or abaxial surface, the hairs straight; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, divided to the midrib, the margins revolute, enclosing the lower surface of the leaf blade, forming a single groove. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, white or cream; pedicels 6-10 mm long. Perianth 3-4 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, hairy, simple-hairy; ovary hairy, stipitate, the stipe 0.5-1 mm long; pistil 7-9 mm long, white or cream, pollen presenter lateral, style hairy. Follicles hairy, not viscid, dehiscent, 8-13 mm long. Flowers in May, June, July, August, September, October or November. Occurs in the Eremaean (ER) or South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Coolgardie (COO), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Swan Coastal Plain.
- IBRA Subregions
- Dandaragan Plateau, Eastern Goldfield, Fitzgerald, Katanning, Lesueur Sandplain, Merredin, Northern Jarrah Forest, Perth, Southern Jarrah Forest, Western Mallee.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Bruce Rock, Carnamah, Coolgardie, Coorow, Corrigin, Cranbrook, Cunderdin, Dalwallinu, Dandaragan, Dowerin, Dumbleyung, Gnowangerup, Goomalling, Katanning, Kellerberrin, Kent, Kojonup, Kulin, Lake Grace, Narembeen, Narrogin, Northam, Quairading, Ravensthorpe, Tammin, Victoria Plains, Wagin, West Arthur, Wickepin, Williams, Wongan-Ballidu, Woodanilling, Wyalkatchem, York.