- Reference
- Nuytsia 25:263-265, Fig. 5 (2015)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Spreading shrub, to 0.7 m high. Fl. purple, Aug. Skeletal red gritty soils over massive rock. Summit of rolling hill.
Scientific Description
Prostrate,spreading or scrambling, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, not spiny, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, compound, alternate, not continuous with stem, 20-35 mm long, hairy, with simple hairs, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent, leaflets 7, pinnately arranged, terminal leaflet present, stalked; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present and persistent to older leaves, 3-4 mm long, without glands, ribless. Pedicel present, 0.5-1 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present but early deciduous. Calyx 2.5-3.7 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 7-7.6 mm long, uniformly coloured, purple; claws absent; standard 7 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 6-6.2 mm long, not auriculate, keel 6-7 mm long, not beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.5-0.7 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments united in an open sheath with one free stamen, 4-5 mm long. Ovary stipitate, hairy or glandular; style 5.5-7 mm long, hairy or glandular towards the base, bearded (with a tuft of hairs at apex), terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), 35-40 mm long, 3.5-4 mm wide, sessile or subsessile, not constricted between the seeds, round in cross-section, hairy, with simple hairs, not beaked. Flowers in August. Occurs in the Eremaean Botanical Province, in the Gascoyne IBRA regions.
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Carnarvon, Gascoyne, Murchison, Pilbara.
- IBRA Subregions
- Ashburton, Augustus, Chichester, Hamersley, Western Murchison, Wooramel.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Ashburton, Carnarvon, Karratha, Meekatharra, Upper Gascoyne.