- Reference
- Telopea 2:57 (1980)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Decumbent to ascending perennial, herb or shrub, 0.15-0.4 m high. Fl. blue/purple, Jun or Sep to Oct. Red or yellow sand.
Scientific Description
Stems unribbed. Leaves flat, 6-30 mm long, 3-8 mm wide, Indumentum present, with dense, dendritic hairs; margins entire. Bracteoles 3-4 mm long. Pedicel pedicellate, Pedicel length the pedicels 6-10 mm long, Indumentum present, Hair type with dendritic hairs. Calyx lobes present, Calyx length 3-5 mm long, hairy, with dense, dendritic hairs. Corolla blue or purple, 11-12 mm long, auriculate, not spurred, hairy on the outside, with dense, dendritic hairs, glabrous on the inside; central lobes 4.5-5.5 mm long, with wings; outer lobes 6.5-8 mm long, wing present on both sides and clearly unequal, 0.5-1.5 mm wide on the narrower side, 0.7-2.5 mm wide on the broader side. Anthers connate. Ovary inferior, not gibbose; style 4-4.2 mm long, glabrous; indusium single, glabrous; ovules one or two. Flowers in June, July, August, September and October. Occurs in the Yalgoo (YAL), Murchison (MUR), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR) and Great Sandy Desert (GSD) IBRA Region(s), of the Eremaean (E) Botanical Province.
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Central Ranges, Coolgardie, Great Sandy Desert, Great Victoria Desert, Murchison, Yalgoo.
- IBRA Subregions
- Central, Eastern Goldfield, Eastern Murchison, Mann-Musgrave Block, Shield, Southern Cross, Tallering, Western Murchison.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Cue, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Laverton, Leonora, Meekatharra, Menzies, Mount Magnet, Ngaanyatjarraku, Sandstone, Yalgoo.