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Synaphea reticulata (Sm.) Druce

Reference
Rep.Bot.Exch.Club Brit.Isles 4:650 (1917)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Spreading to prostrate shrub, 0.1-0.45 m high, to 0.8 m wide. Fl. yellow, Jul to Oct. White sand, sandy soils over granite or limestone, sometimes with gravel.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 12 September 1995
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Scientific Description

Shrubs; branchlets hairy. Leaves alternate, 60-170 mm long, hairy; petiole hairy; lamina flat, clearly widest above the middle, once divided or twice or more divided, tripartitely divided or divided only at the apex, shallowly divided or deeply divided, indumentum spreading; distance from base of leaf to lowest lobe 85-125 mm; terminal leaf lobe 5-20 mm long, 6-8 mm wide; lowest lobes 10-40 mm long. Inflorescences yellow; scape 40-100 mm long; floral bracts 2.5-3 mm long. Perianth 5-6 mm long, hairy; adaxial tepal 5-6 mm long; abaxial tepal 4-4.5 mm long; ovary hairy, style glabrous; style including stigmatic disc 3.5-4 mm long, horned; stigma 1.5-2 mm long, 1 mm wide. Follicles 5.5-6 mm long. Flowers in July, August, September or October. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Warren (WAR) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Warren.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzgerald, Katanning, Recherche, Southern Jarrah Forest, Warren, Western Mallee.
IMCRA Regions
WA South Coast.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Albany, Broomehill-Tambellup, Denmark, Esperance, Gnowangerup, Jerramungup, Kent, Kojonup, Plantagenet, Ravensthorpe.