- Reference
- Trans.Linn.Soc.London 10:185 (1810)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Erect, often straggly, non-lignotuberous shrub, 1-2 m high. Fl. white, Jul to Oct. White or grey sand, clay, loam, gravel, laterite.
Scientific Description
Shrubs, 1-2 m high; branchlets glabrous or hairy. Leaves alternate, (40-)50-120 mm long, 15-60(-65) mm wide, glabrous; lamina flat, clearly widest above the middle, once divided, pinnately divided, shallowly divided. Inflorescences axillary, cream; pedicels 4-5 mm long. Perianth 4-5 mm long, glabrous; ovary glabrous; pistil 3-4 mm long, pollen presenter conical, style glabrous. Follicles 23-30 mm long, 10-15 mm wide, corky tetrahedral projections (on external surfaces of fruit) absent; seed 15-18 mm long (including wing), 6-7 mm wide, the wing discontinuous, marginal, extending down one lateral side only. Flowers in July, 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) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain.
- IBRA Subregions
- Dandaragan Plateau, Fitzgerald, Katanning, Lesueur Sandplain, Northern Jarrah Forest, Perth, Southern Jarrah Forest.
- IMCRA Regions
- WA South Coast.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Albany, Armadale, Beverley, Boddington, Boyup Brook, Bridgetown-Greenbushes, Brookton, Chittering, Collie, Cranbrook, Cuballing, Dandaragan, Denmark, Gingin, Gnowangerup, Gosnells, Jerramungup, Kalamunda, Kojonup, Mundaring, Murray, Narrogin, Perth, Plantagenet, Serpentine-Jarrahdale, Swan, Toodyay, Victoria Plains, Wagin, Wandering, West Arthur, Williams, York.