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Lambertia ilicifolia Hook.
Holly-leaved Honeysuckle

Reference
Icon.Pl. 6:Tab.553 (1843)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect, prickly, densely-branched shrub, to 2 m high. Fl. yellow/orange, Aug to Nov. Grey or yellow sand, sandy loams & clays, gravel, laterite. Sandplains, hills, slopes & rises, railway reserve.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 20 May 2003
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Scientific Description

Shrubs; branchlets glabrous or hairy. Leaves whorled, 12-20 mm long, 5-10 mm wide, glabrous; lamina flat, widest around the middle, once divided, pinnately divided, entire or shallowly divided, the margins flat; apex pungent, 0.8-1 mm long. Inflorescences yellow; innermost bracts 7-10 mm long. Perianth 11-17 mm long, hairy; pistil 10-15 mm long, style hairy. Flowers in August, September, October or November. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Jarrah Forest (JF) or Mallee (MAL) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest, Mallee.
IBRA Subregions
Katanning, Merredin, Northern Jarrah Forest, Southern Jarrah Forest, Western Mallee.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Corrigin, Cuballing, Dumbleyung, Kent, Kojonup, Kulin, Lake Grace, Narrogin, Quairading, Wagin, Wickepin, Williams, Woodanilling.