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Synaphea platyphylla A.S.George

Reference
Fl.Australia 16:493 (1995)
Conservation Code
Priority Three
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Caespitose shrub. Fl. yellow, Sep to Oct. Sandy loam.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 11 July 1996
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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).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzgerald, Katanning, Recherche.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Dumbleyung, Narrogin, Ravensthorpe, Wagin, Wickepin.