- Reference
- Austral.Syst.Bot. 20:70 (2007)
- Conservation Code
- Priority Four
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Upright, non-lignotuberous shrub, 0.4-2.5 m high, to 3 m wide. Fl. Jun to Aug. White/yellow sand with lateritic gravel.
Scientific Description
Shrubs, 1-2 m high; branchlets hairy. Leaves petiolate, alternate, 220-400 mm long, 50-130 mm wide, hairy; petiole 50-115 mm long; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, divided to the midrib, with 10-15 lobes on each side, the margins flat or revolute. Inflorescences villous (with soft, shaggy, weak and straight hairs), yellow or pink; innermost bracts 40-45 mm long, hairy. Perianth 40-55 mm long, hairy, all over, limb apex pubescent (with soft, straight, erect hairs), without awns; pistil 60-70 mm long, curved, style glabrous. Follicles hairy, hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), obovate, 12-15 mm long. Flowers in July or August. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Avon Wheatbelt (AW) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Priority Four (P4).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Avon Wheatbelt, Swan Coastal Plain.
- IBRA Subregions
- Merredin, Perth.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Dowerin, Merredin, Narembeen, Perth, Westonia, Wongan-Ballidu, Yilgarn.