- Reference
- Austral.Syst.Bot. 20:66 (2007)
- Conservation Code
- Priority Three
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Compact, pungent, non-lignotuberous shrub, 1-2.5 m high. Fl. yellow-orange, Jul to Nov. Lateritic gravelly soils, yellow sand. Hillslopes.
Scientific Description
Shrubs, 1-1.5 m high; branchlets hairy. Leaves petiolate, alternate, 55-120 mm long, 15-35 mm wide, hairy; petiole 4-6 mm long; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, deeply divided, with 8-9 lobes on each side, the margins revolute. Inflorescences pubescent (with soft, straight, erect hairs), yellow; innermost bracts 22-25 mm long, hairy. Perianth 25-35 mm long, hairy, all over, limb apex hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), without awns; pistil 37-47 mm long, straight or curved, style glabrous. Follicles hairy, hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), obovate, 8-13 mm long. Flowers in August. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Murchison (MUR), Geraldton Sandplains (GS) or Avon Wheatbelt (AW) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Priority Three (P3).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains.
- IBRA Subregions
- Lesueur Sandplain, Merredin.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Three Springs.