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- Reference
- Austral.Syst.Bot. 10:327-328 (1997)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Not Current
Erect, much-branched shrub, 0.5-1.5 m high. Fl. yellow & red, Aug. White sand, clayey sand, laterite.
Scientific Description
Erect, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, spiny at least in part, glabrous; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, alternate, not continuous with stem, 8-25 mm long, 2-4 mm wide, glabrous, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules apparently absent even from the youngest leaves. Pedicel present, 2.5-3 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles absent. Calyx 3-3.6 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribbed; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 9-10.5 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow or red, with some yellow or red spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 9-10 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 8-9.2 mm long, auriculate, keel 6.5-8.6 mm long, beaked, auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.3-0.6 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 5.6-7 mm long. Ovary stipitate or sessile or subsessile, glabrous; style 9.5-11 mm long, glabrous, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), stipitate or sessile or subsessile, not constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, hairy (?) or glabrous (?), beaked. Flowers in August. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Mallee and Esperance IBRA regions.