- Reference
- Prodr. 576 (1810)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Prostrate to ascending annual or perennial, herb, 0.05-0.4 m high. Fl. yellow/brown-purple, Jan to Jul. Sandy, often stony soils, clay, alluvium. Depressions, undulating plains.
Scientific Description
Stems unribbed. Leaves flat, 30-70 mm long, 3-10 mm wide, Indumentum absent (leaves glabrous); margins entire or lobed. Bracteoles absent. Pedicel pedicellate, Pedicel length the pedicels 15-50 mm long, glabrous. Calyx lobes present, Calyx length 0.8-1 mm long, glabrous. Corolla yellow, 9-16 mm long, auriculate, not spurred, glabrous on the outside, glabrous on the inside; central lobes 2.5-5.4 mm long, with wings; outer lobes 5.5-7 mm long, wings present on both sides, 0.4-0.8 mm wide. Anthers free. Ovary inferior, not gibbose; style 6.5-9 mm long, hairy; indusium single, hairy; ovules more than two. Flowers in January, February, March, April, May, June and July. Occurs in the Dampier land (DL), Ord-Victoria Plains (OVP), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Northern Kimberly (NK) and Central Kimberly (CK) IBRA Region(s), of the Northern (N) Botanical Province.
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Central Kimberley, Dampierland, Northern Kimberley, Ord Victoria Plain, Victoria Bonaparte.
- IBRA Subregions
- Berkeley, Fitzroy Trough, Hart, Keep, Mitchell, Mount Eliza, Pentecost, Pindanland, Purnululu.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Broome, Derby-West Kimberley, Halls Creek, Wyndham-East Kimberley.