Jacksonia pungens Chappill

Scientific Description

Erect, 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, continuous with stem, hairy, with simple hairs, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent, 1-3.5. Stipules apparently absent even from the youngest leaves. Pedicel present, 3-10 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present and persistent, 5.5-10 mm long, hairy, not striate. Calyx 12-16 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 16-17 mm long, multicoloured, orange, mostly yellow, red or orange, with some yellow, red or orange spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 10-11 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 11-12 mm long, not auriculate, keel 11-12.5 mm long, not beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 1-1.3 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 11-13 mm long. Ovary stipitate, hairy or glandular; style 11-14 mm long, hairy or glandular towards the base, not bearded, terete. Fruit stipitate, not constricted between the seeds, round in cross-section, not beaked. Flowers in November and December. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Geraldton Sandplains and Avon Wheatbelt IBRA regions. Conservation Code Threatened (T).