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Synaphea sp. flat canaliculata (M. Bennett 794)

Conservation Code
Priority One
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current
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Scientific Description

; Branchlets glabrous, not ribbed, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 45-70 mm long, glabrous; petiole glabrous; lamina flat, twice or more divided, pinnately divided, deeply divided; terminal leaf lobe 4-9 mm long, 1.7-5 mm wide; lowest lobes 15-22 mm long. Inflorescences yellow; scape 30-35 mm long. Perianth; adaxial tepal 4.5 mm long; abaxial tepal 3.4 mm long; ovary hairy, style glabrous, lobed; stigma 3.5 mm long, 0.7 mm wide. Flowers in October. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Priority One (P1).

C. Hollister and K.R. Thiele, 19 January 2024

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Esperance Plains.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzgerald.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Ravensthorpe.