- Reference
- Austral.Syst.Bot. 20:67 (2007)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Low, lignotuberous shrub. Fl. cream-pink-green, Aug. White/grey or yellow sand.
Scientific Description
Prostrate shrubs, 0.5-1 m high; branchlets glabrous or hairy. Leaves petiolate, alternate, 155-275 mm long, 4-12 mm wide, hairy; petiole 20-35 mm long; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, deeply divided or divided to the midrib, with 35-57 lobes on each side, the margins revolute. Inflorescences pink; innermost bracts 22-27 mm long, glabrous. Perianth 31-36 mm long, hairy, all over, limb apex hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), without awns; pistil 38-45 mm long, straight, style glabrous. Follicles hairy, pubescent (with soft, straight, erect hairs), obovate, 7-13 mm long. Flowers in August. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA) or Avon Wheatbelt (AW) IBRA subregion(s).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Geraldton Sandplains, Swan Coastal Plain.
- IBRA Subregions
- Lesueur Sandplain, Perth.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Carnamah, Coorow, Dandaragan, Irwin, Mingenew, Three Springs.