Jacksonia remota Chappill

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), alternate, not continuous with stem, 3.5-13 mm long, hairy, with simple hairs, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent, 1.5-3; pustules or glands absent. Stipules apparently absent even from the youngest leaves. Pedicel present, 1-1.5 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present and persistent, 3.5-4.2 mm long, hairy, not striate. Calyx 13 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 12-14 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow or orange, with some yellow or orange spots, streaks or blotches; claws present, wings 6-7 mm long, not auriculate, keel 7-8 mm long, not beaked, not auriculate, hairy at least in part. Stamens ten; anthers 0.7-1.1 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 5-6 mm long. Ovary stipitate, hairy or glandular; style 6.2-7.5 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, not beaked. Occurs in the Northern Botanical Province, in the Central Kimberley IBRA regions. Conservation Code Priority Two (P2).