- Reference
- Austral.Syst.Bot. 20:68 (2007)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Non-lignotuberous shrub, 0.5-2.5 m high. Fl. cream-yellow-brown, Apr to Aug. Sandy & rocky soils, clay loam. Flats, hills.
Scientific Description
Shrubs, 0.5-2.5 m high; branchlets hairy. Leaves petiolate, alternate, 75-230 mm long, 4-8 mm wide, hairy; petiole 5-20 mm long; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, deeply divided, with 32-57 lobes on each side, the margins recurved. Inflorescences tomentose (with matted or tangled, soft, woolly hairs), yellow; innermost bracts 20-23 mm long, hairy. Perianth 18-30 mm long, hairy, all over, limb apex pubescent (with soft, straight, erect hairs), without awns; pistil 23-30 mm long, curved, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), elliptic, 14-20 mm long. Flowers in May, June or July. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee.
- IBRA Subregions
- Fitzgerald, Katanning, Southern Jarrah Forest, Western Mallee.
- IMCRA Regions
- WA South Coast.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Albany, Broomehill-Tambellup, Cranbrook, Dumbleyung, Gnowangerup, Plantagenet.