- Reference
- Proc.Linn.Soc.New South Wales 6:460 (1892)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Open, much-branched shrub, 0.7-2 m high. Fl. yellow. Sandstone, alluvium. Amongst boulders along watercourses.
Scientific Description
Shrub, with hairy stems. Leaves 40-130 mm long, 25-75 mm wide, not lobed; margins serrate or dentate; hairy, with stellate hairswith scales absent, Sessile glands absent; stipules present but early deciduous (only visible on youngest leaves), 5-15 mm long. Calyx 15-20 mm long. Fruits indehiscent and not splitting into sections (drupes), length-width ratio more or less as long as wide, hairs or scales present, simple hairs (without tubercle bases) absent, stellate hairs present, Sessile glands absent, tubercle-based simple hairs absent, gland-tipped hairs absent, scales absent; apex rounded; prickles absent (except perhaps a terminal awn); terminal awns or spines absent; calyx persistent to mature fruit, not accrescent. Flowering time February. Distribution Botanical Province Northern, IBRA Bioregion North Kimberley and Central Kimberley.
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Central Kimberley, Northern Kimberley.
- IBRA Subregions
- Mitchell, Pentecost.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Derby-West Kimberley, Wyndham-East Kimberley.