- Reference
- Trans.Linn.Soc.London 10:184 (1810)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Erect to spreading, lignotuberous shrub, (0.3-)0.5-2 m high. Fl. brown-red, Sep to Dec. Grey/brown or black sand, loam, gravel. Seasonally wet flats, granite outcrops.
Scientific Description
Shrubs, 0.5-2 m high; branchlets glabrous or hairy. Leaves alternate, 45-180 mm long, 2-18 mm wide, glabrous; lamina terete or flat, clearly widest above the middle, once divided, pinnately divided or tripartitely divided, entire, shallowly divided or divided to the midrib. Inflorescences axillary, brown; pedicels 4-5 mm long. Perianth 4.5-7 mm long, hairy; ovary glabrous; pistil 7-9 mm long, pollen presenter oblique, style glabrous. Follicles 20-35 mm long, 12-17 mm wide, corky tetrahedral projections (on external surfaces of fruit) absent; seed 12-20 mm long (including wing), 9-11 mm wide, the wing discontinuous, marginal, extending down one lateral side only. Flowers in September, October, November or December. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Jarrah Forest (JF), Warren (WAR) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain, Warren.
- IBRA Subregions
- Fitzgerald, Northern Jarrah Forest, Perth, Southern Jarrah Forest, Warren.
- IMCRA Regions
- WA South Coast.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Albany, Armadale, Augusta Margaret River, Broomehill-Tambellup, Busselton, Canning, Collie, Cranbrook, Dardanup, Denmark, Donnybrook-Balingup, Gnowangerup, Gosnells, Kalamunda, Manjimup, Murray, Nannup, Plantagenet, Serpentine-Jarrahdale, Wandering, Waroona, West Arthur.