- Reference
- Austral.Syst.Bot. 8:1234 (1995)
- Conservation Code
- Priority Two
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Spreading or sprawling, glaucous shrub, to 0.6 m high. Fl. yellow & red/brown, Sep. Yellow sand. Plains.
Scientific Description
Twining or climbing plants, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, spiny at least in part, glabrous; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, alternate, continuous with stem, 8 mm long, 45 mm wide, glabrous, terete; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules apparently absent even from the youngest leaves. Pedicel present, 1.5-2 mm long, glabrous. Bracteoles absent. Calyx 3-3.5 mm long, not accrescent, glabrous, ribbed; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 6.3-8 mm long, multicoloured, yellow, mostly red or brown, with some red or brown spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 6-7 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 4.5-5.3 mm long, not auriculate, keel 5-5.5 mm long, beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.3-0.4 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 4-5.5 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, glabrous; style 4.5-5.5 mm long, glabrous, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), sessile or subsessile, not constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, beaked. Flowers in September. Occurs in the Eremaean Botanical Province, in the Coolgardie IBRA regions. Conservation Code Priority Two (P2).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Coolgardie.
- IBRA Subregions
- Southern Cross.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Coolgardie, Yilgarn.