- Reference
- Austral.Syst.Bot. 20:65 (2007)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Low, prostrate shrub, 0.1-0.5 m high. Fl. yellow-purple-pink/brown, Jul to Oct. Sandy, often gravelly soils, rocky loam or clay.
Scientific Description
Shrubs, 0.30-0.50 m high; branchlets hairy. Leaves petiolate, alternate, 105-290 mm long, 10-16 mm wide, hairy; petiole 15-40 mm long; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, divided to the midrib, with 30-60 lobes on each side, the margins recurved. Inflorescences pubescent (with soft, straight, erect hairs), pink or brown; innermost bracts 17-20 mm long, hairy or glabrous. Perianth 25-35 mm long, hairy, all over, limb apex hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), without awns; pistil 43-48 mm long, straight, style glabrous. Follicles hairy, pubescent (with soft, straight, erect hairs), obovate, 12-14 mm long. Flowers in August. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Jarrah Forest (JF) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest.
- IBRA Subregions
- Fitzgerald, Katanning, Recherche, Southern Jarrah Forest.
- IMCRA Regions
- WA South Coast.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Albany, Cranbrook, Esperance, Gnowangerup, Jerramungup, Plantagenet, Ravensthorpe.