- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Tufted, rounded to prostrate, non-lignotuberous shrub, (0.15-)0.3-0.7(-1) m high. Fl. cream-yellow-orange-pink/red-brown, Jul to Nov. Sandy soils, often with gravel, laterite, granitic soils.
Scientific Description
Shrubs, 0.5-2 m high; branchlets hairy. Leaves petiolate, alternate, 160-350 mm long, 4-10 mm wide, hairy; petiole 15-25 mm long; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, divided to the midrib, with 48-77 lobes on each side, the margins recurved. Inflorescences hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), brown; innermost bracts 18-26 mm long, hairy. Perianth 25-38 mm long, hairy, all over, limb apex hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), without awns; pistil 40-50 mm long, curved, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, obovate, 9-13 mm long. Flowers in August or September. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Warren (WAR) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Swan Coastal Plain, Warren.
- IBRA Subregions
- Dandaragan Plateau, Fitzgerald, Katanning, Lesueur Sandplain, Northern Jarrah Forest, Perth, Recherche, Southern Jarrah Forest, Warren, Western Mallee.
- IMCRA Regions
- WA South Coast.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Albany, Augusta Margaret River, Beverley, Boddington, Boyup Brook, Bridgetown-Greenbushes, Brookton, Broomehill-Tambellup, Carnamah, Chittering, Coorow, Corrigin, Cranbrook, Cuballing, Dandaragan, Dumbleyung, Esperance, Gingin, Gnowangerup, Goomalling, Jerramungup, Katanning, Kent, Kojonup, Kulin, Mandurah, Narrogin, Pingelly, Plantagenet, Ravensthorpe, Stirling, Three Springs, Toodyay, Victoria Plains, Wagin, Wandering, Waroona, West Arthur, Wickepin, Williams, Woodanilling.