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Synaphea flexuosa A.S.George

Reference
Fl.Australia 16:490 (1995)
Conservation Code
Priority Two
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Much-branched, tangled shrub, ca 0.2 m high. Fl. yellow, Sep to Oct. Sandy loam, brown sand.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 2 October 1997
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Scientific Description

Shrubs; branchlets hairy. Leaves alternate, 130-260 mm long, hairy; petiole hairy; lamina terete, twice or more divided, pinnately divided, divided to the midrib, indumentum appressed; distance from base of leaf to lowest lobe 60-160 mm; terminal leaf lobe 7-15 mm long, 1.5-5 mm wide; lowest lobes 50-90 mm long. Inflorescences yellow; scape 150-220 mm long; floral bracts 1-1.3 mm long. Perianth 3.5-5.3 mm long, glabrous; adaxial tepal 4.5-5.3 mm long; abaxial tepal 3.6-4.2 mm long; ovary hairy, style glabrous; style including stigmatic disc 2.5-3 mm long, lobed; stigma 1 mm long, 1.2 mm wide. Follicles 5-6 mm long. Flowers in September or October. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Mallee (MAL) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Priority Two (P2).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Mallee.
IBRA Subregions
Western Mallee.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Kent, Kulin, Lake Grace.