- Reference
- Austral.Syst.Bot. 20:65 (2007)
- Conservation Code
- Priority Four
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Prostrate, lignotuberous shrub, to 0.2 m high, to 1 m wide. Fl. yellow-orange, Oct. Gravelly soils.
Scientific Description
Prostrate shrubs, 0.10-0.40 m high; branchlets hairy. Leaves petiolate, alternate, 90-250 mm long, 25-70 mm wide, hairy; petiole 25-65 mm long; lamina flat, once divided or twice or more divided, pinnately divided, divided to the midrib, with 15-20 lobes on each side, the margins revolute. Inflorescences tomentose (with matted or tangled, soft, woolly hairs) or pubescent (with soft, straight, erect hairs), pink or purple; innermost bracts 20-28 mm long, hairy. Perianth 24-25 mm long, hairy, all over, limb apex hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), without awns; pistil 35-38 mm long, curved, style hairy. Follicles hairy, pubescent (with soft, straight, erect hairs), obovate, 10-11 mm long. Flowers in September or October. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Avon Wheatbelt (AW) or Jarrah Forest (JF) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Priority Four (P4).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest.
- IBRA Subregions
- Katanning, Northern Jarrah Forest, Southern Jarrah Forest.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Boyup Brook, Broomehill-Tambellup, Cranbrook, Katanning, Kojonup, Narrogin, Plantagenet, Wagin, West Arthur, Woodanilling.