- Reference
- Fl.Austral. 5:530 (1870)
- Conservation Code
- Priority Three
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Open, straggling shrub, up to 2.5 m high. Fl. white-cream/yellow, Aug to Oct. Red clay or sand over laterite. Seasonally wet flats.
Scientific Description
Shrubs, 2-5 m high; branchlets glabrous. Leaves alternate, (10-)20-50(-70) mm long, 1 mm wide, glabrous; lamina terete, entire. Inflorescences axillary, cream; pedicels 3-9 mm long. Perianth 1.5-2.5 mm long, glabrous; ovary glabrous; pistil 3-4.5 mm long, pollen presenter conical, style glabrous. Follicles 16-23 mm long, 8-10 mm wide, corky tetrahedral projections (on external surfaces of fruit) absent; seed 14-17 mm long (including wing), 6-7 mm wide, the wing discontinuous, marginal, extending down one lateral side only. Flowers in August, September or October. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Priority Three (P3).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Swan Coastal Plain.
- IBRA Subregions
- Fitzgerald, Katanning, Northern Jarrah Forest, Perth, Southern Jarrah Forest, Western Mallee.
- IMCRA Regions
- WA South Coast.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Albany, Augusta Margaret River, Boddington, Busselton, Gnowangerup, Katanning, Murray, Plantagenet, Wandering.