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Petrophile squamata R.Br. subsp. squamata

Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Shrub, 0.3-2 m high. Fl. yellow-cream-white, Jul to Dec. Clayey & sandy soils, often gravelly over laterite or granite. Winter-wet flats & swamps.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 9 January 2003
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 0.5-2 m high; branchlets hairy, with straight hairs. Leaves alternate, 20-40 mm long, glabrous; lamina flat, once divided or twice or more divided, pinnately divided or tripartitely divided, divided to the midrib, with (3-)14-21(-23) points or lobes; distance from base of leaf to lowest lobe 5-15 mm. Inflorescences not viscid, cream or yellow. Perianth 8-11.5 mm long, hairy, the limb apex hairy all over; pistil 9-12 mm long; pollen presenter not fusiform, glabrous, 3-4 mm long, the brush 2-2.3 mm long. Cone with persistent scales, 10-16 mm long. Flowers in June, July, August, September, October, November or December. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Warren (WAR) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Swan Coastal Plain, Warren.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzgerald, Katanning, Northern Jarrah Forest, Perth, Southern Jarrah Forest, Warren, Western Mallee.
IMCRA Regions
WA South Coast.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Albany, Augusta Margaret River, Boddington, Boyup Brook, Broomehill-Tambellup, Busselton, Cranbrook, Denmark, Gnowangerup, Harvey, Jerramungup, Kent, Murray, Nannup, Narrogin, Plantagenet, Wagin, West Arthur, Woodanilling.