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Synaphea flabelliformis A.S.George

Reference
Fl.Australia 16:490 (1995)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Tufted shrub, 0.15-0.4 m high. Fl. yellow, Jul to Oct. Sandy clay, white or grey sand over laterite, gravel.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 9 September 1995
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Scientific Description

Shrubs; branchlets hairy. Leaves alternate, 80-215 mm long, hairy; petiole hairy; lamina flat, once divided or twice or more divided, tripartitely divided or divided only at the apex, shallowly divided, indumentum spreading; distance from base of leaf to lowest lobe 60-80 mm; terminal leaf lobe 0 mm long, 0 mm wide; lowest lobes 10-15 mm long. Inflorescences yellow; scape 100-250 mm long; floral bracts 2-4 mm long. Perianth 4.5-6 mm long, glabrous or hairy; adaxial tepal 4.5-6 mm long; abaxial tepal 3.5-5.5 mm long; ovary hairy, style glabrous; style including stigmatic disc 3-4 mm long, entire; stigma 0.6-1 mm long, 1-1.3 mm wide. Follicles 4-4.7 mm long. Flowers in July, August, September or October. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Avon Wheatbelt (AW) or Jarrah Forest (JF) IBRA subregion(s).

C. Hollister and K.R. Thiele, 19 January 2024

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzgerald, Katanning, Merredin, Northern Jarrah Forest, Southern Jarrah Forest.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Beverley, Brookton, Cuballing, Goomalling, Narrogin, Pingelly, Quairading, Ravensthorpe, Toodyay, Wagin, West Arthur, Wickepin, Williams, Woodanilling.