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Synaphea sp. Darkin (F. Hort et al. 586)

Conservation Code
Priority Three
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current
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Scientific Description

Shrubs; branchlets hairy. Leaves alternate, 45-120 mm long, 7-15 mm wide, hairy; petiole hairy; lamina flat, widest around the middle or clearly widest above the middle, entire, indumentum spreading. Inflorescences yellow; scape 30-65 mm long; floral bracts 3-4 mm long. Perianth 6-6.7 mm long, hairy; adaxial tepal 6-6.7 mm long; abaxial tepal 5-5.7 mm long; ovary hairy, style glabrous; style including stigmatic disc 4.5-5 mm long, horned; stigma 1.7 mm long, 1-1.5 mm wide. Follicles 5 mm long. Flowers in September or October. Occurs in the in the Jarrah Forest (JF) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Priority Three (P3).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Jarrah Forest.
IBRA Subregions
Northern Jarrah Forest.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Beverley, Northam, York.