- Reference
- W.Austral.Naturalist 4:186 (1955)
- Conservation Code
- Priority Four
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Weak, decumbent, often clumped shrub, to 1 m high. Fl. orange & purple & red, Aug to Nov. Gravelly loam or clay, sometimes over sandier substrates. Hills, roadverges.
Scientific Description
Prostrate,spreading or scrambling, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems angular, not spiny, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, opposite, continuous with stem, 10-35 mm long, 10-25 mm wide, hairy, with simple hairs, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present and persistent to older leaves, 6.5 mm long, without glands, ribless. Pedicel present, 1.5 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present but early deciduous. Calyx 4-5.5 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 7.8-10 mm long, multicoloured, mostly red, orange or purple, with some red, orange or purple spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 8-8.6 mm long, glabrous, auriculate, wings 7-8 mm long, auriculate, keel 7-8 mm long, not beaked, auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.6-0.8 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 5.5-7.5 mm long. Ovary stipitate, hairy or glandular; style 8-8.5 mm long, hairy or glandular towards the base, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), 7-7.5 mm long, 3.5-4.2 mm wide, stipitate, not constricted between the seeds, round in cross-section, hairy, with simple hairs, not beaked. Flowers in August, September, October and November. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Avon Wheatbelt and Jarrah Forest IBRA regions. Conservation Code Priority Four (P4).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest.
- IBRA Subregions
- Katanning, Northern Jarrah Forest, Southern Jarrah Forest.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Boyup Brook, Kojonup, Narrogin, West Arthur, Williams.