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Petrophile conifera Meisn.

Reference
A.DC., Hooker's J.Bot.Kew Gard.Misc. 7:67 (1855)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Bushy, much-branched shrub, 0.2-1.5 m high. Fl. yellow/cream-white, Aug to Oct. White, yellow/brown sand, rocky loam. Sandplains, lateritic ridges, sandstone hills.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 22 August 1995

Scientific Description

Shrubs, 1-1.5 m high; branchlets hairy, with curled hairs. Leaves alternate, 40-110 mm mm long, glabrous; lamina terete, once divided or twice or more divided, pinnately divided or tripartitely divided, divided to the midrib, with 4-7 points or lobes; distance from base of leaf to lowest lobe 15-40 mm. Inflorescences not viscid, white or yellow. Perianth 8-15 mm long, hairy, the limb apex hairy all over; pistil 12-15 mm long; pollen presenter fusiform, hairy, 3-5.5 mm long. Cone with persistent scales, 20-30 mm long. Flowers in August, September or October. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Geraldton Sandplains (GS) or Avon Wheatbelt (AW) IBRA subregion(s).

C. Hollister and K.R. Thiele, 19 January 2024

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains.
IBRA Subregions
Geraldton Hills, Lesueur Sandplain, Merredin.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Carnamah, Chapman Valley, Coorow, Greater Geraldton, Irwin, Mingenew, Morawa, Northampton, Three Springs.