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Synaphea decumbens A.S.George

Reference
Fl.Australia 16:489 (1995)
Conservation Code
Priority Three
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Decumbent shrub. Fl. yellow, Sep to Oct. Sand over laterite.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 10 July 1996
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Scientific Description

Shrubs; branchlets hairy. Leaves alternate, 80-370 mm long, hairy; petiole hairy; lamina flat, clearly widest above the middle, once divided or twice or more divided, tripartitely divided or divided only at the apex, shallowly divided, indumentum spreading; distance from base of leaf to lowest lobe 140-220 mm; terminal leaf lobe 5-6 mm long, 3-4 mm wide; lowest lobes 15-35 mm long. Inflorescences yellow; scape 120-250 mm long; floral bracts 3-4.5 mm long. Perianth 6.5-8 mm long, hairy; adaxial tepal 6.5-8 mm long; abaxial tepal 5.3-6 mm long; ovary hairy, style glabrous; style including stigmatic disc 3.5-4 mm long, strongly concave; stigma 1.5-1.7 mm long, 0.8 mm wide. Flowers in September or October. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Jarrah Forest (JF) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Priority Three (P3).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Jarrah Forest.
IBRA Subregions
Southern Jarrah Forest.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Augusta Margaret River, Boyup Brook, Busselton, Collie, Cranbrook, Manjimup, West Arthur.