- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Low bushy or spindly shrub, 0.2-1 m high. Fl. pink, May to Dec. Sand, clay, often stony soils. Flats, rises, near salt lakes.
Scientific Description
Shrub, spines absent; branchlets smooth, without distinct raised glands, +/- cylindrical in cross-section, glabrous. Leaves opposite, compound, 5-7 mm long, with 3-5 leaflets, each 3-4.5 mm long, 0.6-0.7 mm wide, flat, the margins flat, smooth, without distinct raised glands, covered in hairs or scales, with stellate (star shaped) hairs; stipular excrescences absent. Flowers terminal. solitary; pedicels 1 mm long; calyx present, 1.5-2.5 mm long, smooth, without distinct raised glands, glabrous except for a ciliate marginal fringe, the hairs stellate (star-shaped); corolla pink, petals four, 5-6 mm long, imbricate (overlapping), free, hairy on the surfaces; stamens twice as many as petals, warty with prominent raised glands, glabrous; anthers 0.4-0.5 mm long, with an appendage. Flowers in May, June, July, August, September, October, November and December. Occurs in the Eremaean and South-West Botanical Province, in the Coolgardie, Warren and Esperance IBRA region(s).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Mallee.
- IBRA Subregions
- Eastern Goldfield, Eastern Mallee, Fitzgerald, Recherche, Southern Cross, Western Mallee.
- IMCRA Regions
- WA South Coast.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Albany, Coolgardie, Dundas, Esperance, Gnowangerup, Jerramungup, Kent, Kondinin, Lake Grace, Ravensthorpe, Yilgarn.