- Reference
- Austral.Syst.Bot. 20:70 (2007)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Non-lignotuberous shrub or tree, 0.5-5 m high. Fl. cream-yellow, Jun to Oct. Deep sand & lateritic soils.
Scientific Description
Shrubs, 1.5-2.5 m high; branchlets glabrous. Leaves sessile, alternate, 25-40 mm long, 17-35 mm wide, glabrous; lamina flat, clearly widest above the middle, pinnately divided, shallowly divided, teeth distinctly pointing towards the apex, with 5-6 lobes on each side, the margins flat. Inflorescences hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), yellow; innermost bracts 7-10 mm long, hairy. Perianth 22-30 mm long, glabrous, without awns; pistil 25-30 mm long, straight, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, pubescent (with soft, straight, erect hairs), ovate, 10-11 mm long. Flowers in June, July, August, September or October. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Geraldton Sandplains (GS) or Swan Coastal Plain (SWA) IBRA subregion(s).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Geraldton Sandplains, Swan Coastal Plain.
- IBRA Subregions
- Dandaragan Plateau, Geraldton Hills, Lesueur Sandplain.
- IMCRA Regions
- Central West Coast.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Chapman Valley, Coorow, Dandaragan, Greater Geraldton, Irwin, Moora, Northampton, Three Springs.