- Reference
- Austral.Syst.Bot. 20:598-599, Fig. 78 (2007)
- Conservation Code
- Priority Four
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Dense, erect, small shrub, 1.5-3.3 m high. Fl. yellow, Nov. Sandy clay. Flat sandplains with Eucalyptus and Allocasuarina species.
Scientific Description
Erect, tree. Stems terete, spiny at least in part, glabrous; 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, 0.3-1; pustules or glands absent. Stipules apparently absent even from the youngest leaves. Pedicel present, 5-6.5 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present and persistent. Calyx 8-10 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla uniformly coloured, yellow; claws present, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 5.5-6.5 mm long, not auriculate, keel 6-7 mm long, not beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.7-0.8 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 6-7 mm long. Ovary stipitate, hairy or glandular; style 8.5-10.3 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 Eremaean Botanical Province, in the Carnarvon and Yalgoo IBRA regions. Conservation Code Priority Four (P4).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Carnarvon, Yalgoo.
- IBRA Subregions
- Edel, Wooramel.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Northampton, Shark Bay.