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- Reference
- Fl.Austral. 1:320 (1863)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Not Current
Procumbent or erect & slender shrub, 0.1-0.5 m high. Fl. blue/pink-white, Aug to Nov. Laterite, stony soils, granite.
Scientific Description
Shrub, spines absent; branchlets smooth, without distinct raised glands, +/- cylindrical in cross-section, glabrous. Leaves opposite, simple, 6-20 mm long, 0.4-0.5 mm wide, flat, the margins revolute, smooth, without distinct raised glands, glabrous; stipular excrescences absent. Flowers axillary, solitary; pedicels 9-10 mm long; calyx present, 3.5-4.5 mm long, smooth, without distinct raised glands, glabrous; corolla pink, white or cream or blue, petals four, 7-9 mm long, imbricate (overlapping), free, glabrous; stamens twice as many as petals, warty with prominent raised glands, ciliate (with a marginal fringe of hairs). Flowers in August, September, October and November. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain IBRA region(s). Conservation Code: Priority Four (P4).