- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Shrub, 0.2-1.5 m high, petaline anthers more or less square, not curved, ca 4 mm long. Fl. yellow, Jun to Oct. Grey or yellow sand, sometimes over limestone or laterite. Seasonally waterlogged areas, banksia woodland, or shale and diorite hillside.
Scientific Description
Shrub, spines absent; branchlets smooth, without distinct raised glands, +/- cylindrical in cross-section, covered in hairs or scales, the hairs stellate (star-shaped). Leaves opposite, compound, 7-13 mm long, with 5-9 leaflets, each 5-8 mm long, 0.8-1 mm wide, flat, the margins flat, smooth, without distinct raised glands, covered in hairs or scales, with stellate (star shaped) hairs; stipular excrescences absent. Flowers axillary, solitary; pedicels 2-6.5 mm long; calyx present, 4-4.5 mm long, smooth, without distinct raised glands, glabrous except for a ciliate marginal fringe, the hairs stellate (star-shaped); corolla yellow, petals four, 8-10.5 mm long, imbricate (overlapping), free, glabrous; stamens twice as many as petals, warty with prominent raised glands, glabrous. Flowers in June, July, August, September and October. Occurs in the Eremaean and South-West Botanical Province, in the Murchison, Swan Coastal Plain and Geraldton IBRA region(s).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Geraldton Sandplains, Murchison, Swan Coastal Plain.
- IBRA Subregions
- Dandaragan Plateau, Eastern Murchison, Geraldton Hills, Lesueur Sandplain, Perth.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Busselton, Canning, Carnamah, Coorow, Gingin, Leonora, Northampton, Swan, Three Springs, Wanneroo.