- Reference
- J.Roy.Soc.Western Australia 27:171 (1942)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Slender erect or decumbent, lignotuberous shrub, 0.2-1.2 m high. Fl. green/green-yellow, Aug to Oct. Sandy gravelly soils, sandy clay.
Scientific Description
Shrubs; branchlets hairy, with straight hairs, not ribbed. Leaves alternate, 50-110 mm long, 2-10 mm wide, hairy, the hairs straight; lamina flat, clearly widest above the middle, entire, the margins flat. Inflorescences not viscid, green or yellow, hairy; floral bracts 2.5-3 mm long, hairy; pedicels 8-10 mm long, hairy. Perianth 9.5-12 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, hairy, simple-hairy, the hairs spreading, the limb apex hairy all over; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 3-4.5 mm long; pistil 13-15 mm long, pollen presenter lateral, style hairy. Flowers in August, September or October. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Jarrah Forest (JF) or Warren (WAR) IBRA subregion(s).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain, Warren.
- IBRA Subregions
- Perth, Southern Jarrah Forest, Warren.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Albany, Augusta Margaret River, Busselton, Cranbrook, Denmark, Manjimup, Nannup, Plantagenet.