Jacksonia capitata Benth.

Scientific Description

Erect or prostrate,spreading or scrambling, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, not spiny, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades absent or apparently so (reduced to scales), alternate, not continuous with stem, hairy, with simple hairs, flat with flat margins; margins entire or dentate; tubercles absent, 0.5-1.5. Stipules apparently absent even from the youngest leaves. Pedicel present, 1-1.5 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present and persistent, 0.5-1.5 mm long, hairy, not striate. Calyx 7.5-10 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 7.5-9 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow, red or orange, with some yellow, red or orange spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 6-6.5 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 5.5-6 mm long, not auriculate, keel 7.5-8 mm long, not beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.4-0.5 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 4-5.6 mm long. Ovary stipitate, hairy or glandular; style 7-7.3 mm long, hairy or glandular towards the base, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), stipitate, not constricted between the seeds, round in cross-section. Flowers in January, October, November and December. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest, Mallee and Esperance IBRA regions.