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Synaphea whicherensis A.S.George

Reference
Fl.Australia 16:295 (1995)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Compact, tufted shrub, 0.15-0.4 m high. Fl. yellow, Oct to Nov. Gravelly lateritic soils, white/grey sand. Winter-wet depressions, flats.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 12 September 1995
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Scientific Description

Shrubs; branchlets hairy. Leaves alternate, 85-270 mm long, hairy; petiole hairy; lamina terete or flat, clearly widest above the middle, once divided, tripartitely divided, entire or divided to the midrib, indumentum appressed; distance from base of leaf to lowest lobe 45-105 mm; terminal leaf lobe 20-65 mm long, 2-3 mm wide; lowest lobes 35-150 mm long. Inflorescences yellow; scape 85-250 mm long; floral bracts 1-1.5 mm long. Perianth 4.5-6 mm long, glabrous; adaxial tepal 4.5-6 mm long; abaxial tepal 3.3-4 mm long; ovary hairy or glabrous, style glabrous; style including stigmatic disc 3-4 mm long, entire or strongly concave; stigma 1.5-2 mm long, 1-1.2 mm wide. Follicles 5.5-6 mm long. Flowers in October or November. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Swan Coastal Plain (SWA) or Jarrah Forest (JF) IBRA subregion(s).

C. Hollister and K.R. Thiele, 19 January 2024

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain.
IBRA Subregions
Perth, Southern Jarrah Forest.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Augusta Margaret River, Busselton, Capel, Nannup.