- Conservation Code
- Priority One
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Slender or straggly shrub, pedicels and sepals glabrous. Fl. pink, Apr. Sand. Low scrub.
Scientific Description
Shrub, spines absent; branchlets smooth, without distinct raised glands, +/- cylindrical in cross-section, glabrous. Leaves opposite, simple, 10-40 mm long, 0.5 mm wide, flat, the margins flat, smooth, without distinct raised glands, glabrous; stipular excrescences absent. Flowers in terminal, loose clusters (cymes or panicles); pedicels 3-6 mm long; calyx present, 4-4.5 mm long, smooth, without distinct raised glands, glabrous; corolla pink, petals four, 5-6.5 mm long, imbricate (overlapping), free, glabrous; stamens twice as many as petals; anthers 1 mm long, with an appendage. Flowers in April. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Swan Coastal Plain IBRA region(s). Conservation Code: Priority One (P1).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain.
- IBRA Subregions
- Perth, Southern Jarrah Forest.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Harvey, Kwinana, Plantagenet.