- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Erect shrub, 0.3-1.2 m high, branchlets gently flexuose & trigonous. Fl. yellow/orange & red/brown, Jun to Nov. Grey sand, often over laterite, clayey sand. Flats, sandplains, hillsides.
Scientific Description
Erect, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, not spiny, glabrous; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, alternate, continuous with stem, 6-25 mm long, 1-4 mm wide, glabrous, terete or flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules apparently absent even from the youngest leaves. Pedicel present, 2-4 mm long, glabrous. Bracteoles absent. Calyx 2.7-4 mm long, not accrescent, glabrous, ribbed; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 7-11 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow, red, orange or brown, with some yellow, red, orange or brown spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 5.5-8.5 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 6-7.5 mm long, not auriculate, keel 6-7.5 mm long, beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.2-0.3 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 5.5-7 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, glabrous; style 7-8.5 mm long, glabrous, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), sessile or subsessile, not constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, glabrous, beaked. Flowers in June, July, August, September, October and November. Occurs in the Eremaean and South-West Botanical Province, in the Coolgardie, Geraldton Sandplains, Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Warren, Esperance and Swan Coastal Plain IBRA regions.
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Swan Coastal Plain, Warren.
- IBRA Subregions
- Dandaragan Plateau, Eastern Mallee, Fitzgerald, Katanning, Lesueur Sandplain, Northern Jarrah Forest, Perth, Recherche, Southern Jarrah Forest, Warren, Western Mallee.
- IMCRA Regions
- WA South Coast.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Albany, Beverley, Boddington, Boyup Brook, Bridgetown-Greenbushes, Broomehill-Tambellup, Chittering, Collie, Coorow, Corrigin, Cranbrook, Dandaragan, Denmark, Donnybrook-Balingup, Dumbleyung, Esperance, Gingin, Gnowangerup, Harvey, Jerramungup, Katanning, Kent, Kojonup, Kulin, Lake Grace, Manjimup, Perth, Pingelly, Plantagenet, Ravensthorpe, Rockingham, Victoria Plains, Wagin, West Arthur, Wickepin, Williams, Woodanilling.