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Synaphea sp. Woodanilling (G.J. Keighery & N. Gibson 4614)

Conservation Code
Priority Two
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Sprawling shrub (sub-shrub). Fl. yellow, Sep to Nov. White-grey sand, red-brown gravelly loam. Gentle slopes.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 24 September 2007
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Scientific Description

Shrubs; branchlets hairy, with straight hairs, not ribbed, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 70-180 mm long, glabrous; petiole glabrous; lamina flat, twice or more divided, pinnately divided, divided to the midrib; distance from base of leaf to lowest lobe 60-140 mm; terminal leaf lobe 10-30 mm long, 6-15 mm wide; lowest lobes 35-55 mm long. Inflorescences yellow; scape 80-140 mm long; floral bracts 1.6-2.5 mm long. Perianth glabrous; adaxial tepal 4-5 mm long; abaxial tepal 3.2-3.8 mm long, style glabrous; style including stigmatic disc 3.5-3.8 mm long, horned. Flowers in September, October or November. Occurs in the in the Avon Wheatbelt (AW) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Priority Two (P2).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzgerald, Katanning.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Ravensthorpe, Woodanilling.