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Synaphea polymorpha R.Br.
Albany Synaphea

Reference
Trans.Linn.Soc.London 10:156 (1810)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Slender or rounded shrub, 0.15-0.7 m high. Fl. yellow, Aug to Nov. White or peaty sand, sandy clay, laterite. Hillslopes, swamps.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 12 September 1995
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Scientific Description

Shrubs; branchlets hairy. Leaves alternate, 30-80 mm long, glabrous; petiole glabrous; lamina flat, once divided or twice or more divided, pinnately divided or tripartitely divided, shallowly divided or deeply divided; distance from base of leaf to lowest lobe 10-20 mm; terminal leaf lobe 4-10 mm long, 1-5 mm wide; lowest lobes 15-35 mm long. Inflorescences yellow; scape 40-80 mm long; floral bracts 2.5-3.5 mm long. Perianth 6-7.5 mm long, hairy; adaxial tepal 6-7.5 mm long; abaxial tepal 5-5.5 mm long; ovary hairy, style glabrous; style including stigmatic disc 4.5-5 mm long, strongly concave; stigma 2 mm long, 1 mm wide. Follicles 4.5-5 mm long. Flowers in August, September, October or November. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Jarrah Forest (JF), Warren (WAR) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Warren.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzgerald, Southern Jarrah Forest, Warren.
IMCRA Regions
WA South Coast.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Albany, Cranbrook, Denmark, Plantagenet, Ravensthorpe.