- Reference
- Lindl., Sketch Veg.Swan R. 12 (1839)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Erect, slender or straggling shrub, 0.1-0.6 m high. Fl. blue-purple, Jul to Oct. Gravelly soils, laterite, sand. Breakaways, plains.
Scientific Description
Erect, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, not spiny, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades absent or apparently so (reduced to scales), simple, whorled, not continuous with stem, 2-8 mm long, 0.5-0.8 mm wide, hairy, with simple hairs, flat with recurved margins; margins entire; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present but early deciduous ( only visible on youngest leaves ). Pedicel present, 1-1.5 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present and persistent, 1.5-2 mm long, hairy, not striate. Calyx 5.5-7 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 11-15 mm long, multicoloured, mostly purple or blue, with some purple or blue spots, streaks or blotches; claws absent; standard 10.5-13 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 7.6-8.7 mm long, not auriculate, keel 5.5-6.3 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), 3-6 mm long. Ovary glabrous; style 3.5-4.2 mm long glabrous, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), 12 mm long, 6 mm wide, stipitate, not constricted between the seeds, round in cross-section, glabrous, not beaked. Flowers in July, August, September and October. Occurs in the 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.
- IBRA Subregions
- Dandaragan Plateau, Fitzgerald, Geraldton Hills, Katanning, Lesueur Sandplain, Merredin, Northern Jarrah Forest, Perth, Western Mallee.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Beverley, Boddington, Brookton, Bruce Rock, Carnamah, Chapman Valley, Coorow, Corrigin, Dalwallinu, Dandaragan, Dumbleyung, Gingin, Gnowangerup, Goomalling, Greater Geraldton, Irwin, Jerramungup, Kalamunda, Kent, Kondinin, Kulin, Lake Grace, Merredin, Mingenew, Moora, Murray, Narembeen, Perth, Ravensthorpe, Serpentine-Jarrahdale, Swan, Three Springs, Victoria Plains, West Arthur, Westonia, Williams, Wongan-Ballidu, Yilgarn, York.