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Synaphea acutiloba Meisn.
Granite Synaphea

Reference
Lehm., Pl.Preiss. [J.G.C.Lehmann] 1:528-529 (1845)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect, tufted shrub, 0.3-1 m high. Fl. yellow, Jul to Nov. Sand, sandy clay, gravel, wet clay. Rocky hillsides, flats.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 8 September 1995
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Scientific Description

Shrubs; branchlets hairy. Leaves alternate, 60-120 mm long, hairy; petiole hairy; lamina flat, twice or more divided, pinnately divided, deeply divided, indumentum appressed; distance from base of leaf to lowest lobe 55-110 mm; terminal leaf lobe 3-15 mm long, 1-3 mm wide; lowest lobes 15-55 mm long. Inflorescences yellow; scape 130-280 mm long; floral bracts 1-1.5 mm long. Perianth 4.5-5 mm long, glabrous; adaxial tepal 4.5-5 mm long; abaxial tepal 2-2.5 mm long; ovary hairy, style glabrous; style including stigmatic disc 2-2.2 mm long, entire; stigma 0.5-1 mm long, 0.3 mm wide. Flowers in July, August, September, October or November. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Swan Coastal Plain (SWA) or Jarrah Forest (JF) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain.
IBRA Subregions
Northern Jarrah Forest, Perth.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Armadale, Beverley, Canning, Chittering, Fremantle, Gosnells, Kalamunda, Mundaring, Serpentine-Jarrahdale, Swan, Victoria Plains, York.