- Reference
- Austral.Syst.Bot. 20:71 (2007)
- Conservation Code
- Priority Three
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Often sprawling, lignotuberous shrub, to 1 m high, sometimes suckering. Fl. yellow, Sep to Oct. Sandy loam, usually over laterite. Sandplains.
Scientific Description
Shrubs, 0.5-1 m high; branchlets hairy. Leaves petiolate, alternate, 70-170 mm long, 15-45 mm wide, hairy; petiole 8-20 mm long; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, divided to the midrib, with 4-10 lobes on each side, the margins revolute. Inflorescences silky (with soft, shiny and appressed hairs), yellow; innermost bracts 14-20 mm long, hairy. Perianth 20-257 mm long, hairy, all over, limb apex pubescent (with soft, straight, erect hairs), without awns; pistil 22-33 mm long, curved, style hairy. Follicles glabrous or hairy, pubescent (with soft, straight, erect hairs), oblong, 9-11 mm long. Flowers in October. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Mallee (MAL) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Priority Three (P3).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Esperance Plains, Mallee.
- IBRA Subregions
- Eastern Mallee, Fitzgerald, Western Mallee.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Dumbleyung, Esperance, Jerramungup, Kent, Kondinin, Kulin, Lake Grace.