- Reference
- Austral.Syst.Bot. 20:67 (2007)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Prostrate, lignotuberous shrub. Fl. yellow-cream-brown, Sep to Oct. Lateritic soils.
Scientific Description
Prostrate shrubs, 0.5-1 m high; branchlets glabrous or hairy. Leaves petiolate, alternate, 75-180 mm long, 12-20 mm wide, hairy; petiole 10-15 mm long; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, divided to the midrib, with 20-40 lobes on each side, the margins revolute. Inflorescences pink; innermost bracts 20-25 mm long, glabrous. Perianth 20-35 mm long, hairy, all over, limb apex hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), without awns; pistil 35-41 mm long, straight, style glabrous. Follicles hairy, pubescent (with soft, straight, erect hairs), obovate, 7-13 mm long. Flowers in September or October. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Jarrah Forest (JF) or Warren (WAR) IBRA subregion(s).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain, Warren.
- IBRA Subregions
- Katanning, Northern Jarrah Forest, Perth, Southern Jarrah Forest, Warren.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Augusta Margaret River, Boddington, Boyup Brook, Bridgetown-Greenbushes, Busselton, Collie, Cranbrook, Cuballing, Dardanup, Denmark, Donnybrook-Balingup, Harvey, Manjimup, Mundaring, Murray, Nannup, Plantagenet, Toodyay, Wagin, Wandering, West Arthur, Williams.