- Reference
- Trans.Linn.Soc.London 10:162 (1810)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Erect shrub or tree, 1-7 m high, with epicormic buds. Fl. yellow/cream-yellow, Jun to Sep or Nov. Sand, sandstone, alluvium. Along watercourses, sandstone cliffs & rocks, sometimes in gorges.
Scientific Description
Trees or Shrubs, 1-9 m high; branchlets hairy, ribbed. Leaves alternate, 110-225 mm long, 5-22 mm wide, glabrous; lamina flat, widest around the middle or more or less the same width throughout, entire, smooth, the margins flat; apex obtuse. Inflorescences yellow; pedicels 5-10 mm long, hairy. Perianth 10-13.5 mm long, irregular, glabrous or hairy, the hairs appressed; anther appendage present, 0.3-0.4 mm long; ovary glabrous; pistil 4-6 mm long. Flowers in June, July, August, September, October or November. Occurs in the Northern (N) or Eremaean (ER) Botanical Province(s), in the Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Northern Kimberley (NK), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Central Kimberley (CK), Dampierland (DL) or Ord-Victoria Plains (OVP) IBRA subregion(s).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Central Kimberley, Dampierland, Darwin Coastal, Great Sandy Desert, Northern Kimberley, Ord Victoria Plain, Victoria Bonaparte.
- IBRA Subregions
- Berkeley, Fitzroy Trough, Keep, McLarty, Mitchell, Pentecost, Pindanland, Purnululu.
- IMCRA Regions
- Kimberley.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Broome, Derby-West Kimberley, East Pilbara, Halls Creek, Wyndham-East Kimberley.