- Reference
- Sketch Veg.Swan R. 32 (1839)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Dense shrub, to 0.6 m high. Fl. yellow, Sep to Oct. White sand, lateritic gravel. Lateritic ridge.
Scientific Description
Shrubs; branchlets hairy. Leaves alternate, 140-380 mm long, glabrous; petiole glabrous; lamina flat, once divided or twice or more divided, pinnately divided or tripartitely divided, shallowly divided or deeply divided; distance from base of leaf to lowest lobe 100-200 mm; terminal leaf lobe 10-35 mm long, 5-20 mm wide; lowest lobes 40-90 mm long. Inflorescences yellow; scape 210-390 mm long; floral bracts 2-2.7 mm long. Perianth 5.5-6 mm long, glabrous; adaxial tepal 5.5-6 mm long; abaxial tepal 5-5.5 mm long; ovary hairy, style glabrous; style including stigmatic disc 4-5.5 mm long, lobed; stigma 0.8-1 mm long, 1.5-1.8 mm wide. Follicles 7-8 mm long. Flowers in September or October. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW) or Jarrah Forest (JF) IBRA subregion(s).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain.
- IBRA Subregions
- Dandaragan Plateau, Katanning, Northern Jarrah Forest, Southern Jarrah Forest.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Armadale, Beverley, Boddington, Boyup Brook, Brookton, Chittering, Kalamunda, Mundaring, Northam, Serpentine-Jarrahdale, Swan, Toodyay, Victoria Plains, Wandering, West Arthur, Williams, York.