- Reference
- Nuytsia 11:33-35 (1996)
- Conservation Code
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Threatened
A taxon name retains its ‘Threatened’ status until a new name has been officially endorsed and appears in the Gazettal Notice.
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Densely branched shrub, to 2 m high. Fl. green & red, Mar or May or Dec. Shallow soils over laterite, clay. Seasonally inundated sites.
Scientific Description
Shrubs, 1.5 m high; branchlets glabrous or hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 10-30 mm long, glabrous; lamina flat, clearly widest above the middle, once divided, tripartitely divided, shallowly divided; lobes 5-10 mm long, 4-6 mm wide, the margins flat. Inflorescences terminal, green or red; pedicels 5-6 mm long. Perianth 6-8 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, glabrous; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 2-3 mm long; pistil 25-30 mm long, red, pollen presenter oblique, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 13-17 mm long. Flowers in July, August, September, October or November. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Swan Coastal Plain (SWA) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Threatened (T).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Swan Coastal Plain.
- IBRA Subregions
- Perth.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Busselton.