- Reference
- Bot.Zeit. 13:27 (1855)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Erect shrub or tree, 1.2-4(-5.4) m high. Fl. yellow & orange, Aug to Oct. Sandy or loamy soils. Sandstone rocks, lateritic plains, river banks.
Scientific Description
Erect, tree or shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, not spiny, glabrous; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades absent or apparently so (reduced to scales), alternate, not continuous with stem, glabrous, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent, 0.5-2; pustules or glands absent. Stipules apparently absent even from the youngest leaves. Pedicel present, 7-9.2 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present and persistent, 0.5-1 mm long, hairy, not striate. Calyx 8.5-8.7 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 11-12.5 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow or orange, with some yellow or orange spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 10-10.5 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 9.6-10 mm long, not auriculate, keel 9.2-10 mm long, beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.7-0.8 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 6-9.3 mm long. Ovary stipitate, hairy or glandular; style 10.2-10.5 mm long, hairy or glandular towards the base, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), 17 mm long, 7 mm wide, stipitate or sessile or subsessile, not constricted between the seeds, round in cross-section, hairy, with simple hairs, not beaked. Flowers in August, September and October. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Geraldton Sandplains IBRA regions.
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Geraldton Sandplains.
- IBRA Subregions
- Geraldton Hills.
- IMCRA Regions
- Central West Coast.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Greater Geraldton, Northampton.