Jacksonia intricata 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, hairy, with simple hairs, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent, 0.5-1.5; pustules or glands absent. Stipules apparently absent even from the youngest leaves. Pedicel present, 3-4 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present and persistent, 1-1.2 mm long, hairy, not striate. Calyx 9-11 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 8 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow, red or brown, with some yellow, red or brown spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 6-7 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 5.5 mm long, not auriculate, keel 7.2 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), 5-5.5 mm long. Ovary stipitate, hairy or glandular; style 6 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, not beaked. Flowers in November. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Esperance IBRA regions. Conservation Code Priority Two (P2).