- Reference
- Prodr. Suppl. 30 (1830)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Slender, non-lignotuberous shrub or tree, to 5 m high. Fl. orange-red, Sep to Dec or Jan or Mar to May. Yellow-brown sandy clay, quartz sand, red rocky gravelly loam, laterite. Foothills, slopes & ridges of range.
Scientific Description
Shrubs; branchlets glabrous or hairy. Leaves whorled, 8-20 mm long, 0.8-1.2 mm wide, glabrous; lamina flat, clearly widest above the middle, entire, the margins recurved or revolute; apex obtuse. Inflorescences orange or red; innermost bracts 18-20 mm long. Perianth 40-45 mm long, glabrous or hairy; pistil 45-53 mm long, style glabrous. Flowers in January, February, March, April, May, September, October, November or December. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee.
- IBRA Subregions
- Fitzgerald, Katanning, Southern Jarrah Forest, Western Mallee.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Albany, Broomehill-Tambellup, Cranbrook, Gnowangerup, Kojonup, Plantagenet.