Synaphea platyphylla A.S.George

Scientific Description

Shrubs; branchlets glabrous. Leaves alternate, 140-300 mm long, 4-10 mm wide, glabrous; petiole glabrous; lamina flat, clearly widest above the middle, once divided, tripartitely divided, entire or deeply divided. Inflorescences yellow; scape 195-385 mm long; floral bracts 1.5-2 mm long. Perianth 4-5.5 mm long, glabrous; adaxial tepal 4-5.5 mm long; abaxial tepal 3.2-3.7 mm long; ovary hairy, style glabrous; style including stigmatic disc 3-3.5 mm long, lobed; stigma 1-1.2 mm long, 1 mm wide. Follicles 5.5-7 mm long. Flowers in September or October. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Avon Wheatbelt (AW) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Priority Three (P3).