- Reference
- Prodr. 2:107 (1825)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Prostrate to decumbent or weeping erect shrub, 0.4-4(-6) m high. Fl. yellow & orange/red, Oct to Dec or Jan to Mar. Sandy soils. Sandplains, rises, swampy depressions, river banks.
Scientific Description
Erect, tree or shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, spiny at least in part, 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; tubercles absent, 1-4; pustules or glands absent. Stipules apparently absent even from the youngest leaves. Pedicel present, 1.5-4.5 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present and persistent, 1-2 mm long, hairy, not striate. Calyx 10-12 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 10.5-13 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow, red or orange, with some yellow, red or orange spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 7-8.5 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 6-9.5 mm long, not auriculate, keel 8-11 mm long, not beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.3-0.4 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 6-10.5 mm long. Ovary stipitate, hairy or glandular; style 7-10 mm long, hairy or glandular towards the base, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), stipitate or sessile or subsessile, not constricted between the seeds, round in cross-section, hairy, with simple hairs, not beaked. Flowers in January, February, March, October, November and December. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Geraldton Sandplains, Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Esperance and Swan Coastal Plain IBRA regions.
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Swan Coastal Plain, Warren.
- IBRA Subregions
- Dandaragan Plateau, Fitzgerald, Katanning, Lesueur Sandplain, Northern Jarrah Forest, Perth, Recherche, Southern Jarrah Forest, Warren, Western Mallee.
- IMCRA Regions
- Central West Coast, Leeuwin-Naturaliste.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Augusta Margaret River, Bayswater, Beverley, Boddington, Boyup Brook, Bridgetown-Greenbushes, Brookton, Broomehill-Tambellup, Bunbury, Busselton, Canning, Capel, Carnamah, Chittering, Claremont, Cockburn, Collie, Corrigin, Cranbrook, Cuballing, Dandaragan, Dardanup, Donnybrook-Balingup, Dumbleyung, Esperance, Gingin, Gnowangerup, Gosnells, Harvey, Jerramungup, Joondalup, Kalamunda, Kent, Kojonup, Kwinana, Lake Grace, Mandurah, Manjimup, Melville, Mundaring, Murray, Nannup, Narrogin, Nedlands, Northam, Perth, Pingelly, Plantagenet, Ravensthorpe, Rockingham, Serpentine-Jarrahdale, South Perth, Stirling, Subiaco, Swan, Vincent, Wanneroo, Waroona, West Arthur, Wickepin, York.