- Reference
- Proc.Linn.Soc.New South Wales 92:211-212 (1968)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Viscid, spreading or sometimes straggly shrub, 0.3-1.2 m high. Fl. white, May to Jun or Aug to Dec or Jan to Mar. Sandy or clay, often stony soils.
Scientific Description
Stems unribbed. Leaves flat, 6-15 mm long, 2-5 mm wide, Indumentum absent (leaves glabrous) or present, with sparse, stellate hairs; margins toothed. Bracteoles present, 2-2.5 mm long, glabrous. Pedicel pedicellate, Pedicel length the pedicels 2.5-4 mm long, glabrous. Calyx lobes present, Calyx length 6.5-10 mm long, glabrous. Corolla white, 10-16 mm long, without auricles, not spurred, hairy on the outside, with sparse, stellate hairs, hairy on the inside; central lobes 5-6 mm long, with wings; outer lobes 7.5-11 mm long, wings present on both sides, 0.4-0.7 mm wide. Anthers free. Ovary inferior, not gibbose; style 7-9 mm long, hairy; indusium single, hairy; ovules one or two. Flowers in March and May. Occurs in the Murchison (MUR), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Coolgardie (COO), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Mallee (MAL) and Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA Region(s), of the Eremaean (E) and South West (SW) Botanical Province.
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Great Victoria Desert, Mallee, Murchison.
- IBRA Subregions
- Eastern Goldfield, Eastern Mallee, Eastern Murchison, Fitzgerald, Katanning, Mardabilla, Merredin, Recherche, Shield, Southern Cross, Western Mallee.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Coolgardie, Dalwallinu, Dowerin, Dundas, Esperance, Gnowangerup, Jerramungup, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Kellerberrin, Kent, Kondinin, Kulin, Lake Grace, Menzies, Merredin, Narembeen, Quairading, Ravensthorpe, Tammin, Wagin, Wickepin, Wyalkatchem, Yilgarn.