- Reference
- Austral.Syst.Bot. 8:1217-1218,Fig.25 (1995)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Divaricately branched shrub, 0.3-0.9 m high. Sand & lateritic gravel. Hills, breakaways.
Scientific Description
Erect, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, spiny at least in part, glabrous; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, alternate, not continuous with stem, 4-20 mm long, 1.2-8 mm wide, glabrous, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules apparently absent even from the youngest leaves. Pedicel present, 0.5-2 mm long, glabrous. Bracteoles absent. Calyx 2.4-2.5 mm long, not accrescent, glabrous, ribbed; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 7-7.6 mm long, multicoloured, mostly red or brown, with some red or brown spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 6.5-6.8 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 6.7-7 mm long, not auriculate, keel 6.4-6.6 mm long, beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.5-0.6 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 4.5-6 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, glabrous; style 5.5-6.5 mm long, glabrous, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), 9-11 mm long, 6-8 mm wide, sessile or subsessile, not constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, glabrous, beaked. Flowers in May, June, July, August and September. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Geraldton Sandplains and Avon Wheatbelt IBRA regions.
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains.
- IBRA Subregions
- Lesueur Sandplain, Merredin.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Carnamah, Coorow, Dandaragan, Irwin, Mingenew, Three Springs.