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- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Not Current
Erect open shrub, 0.2-1 m high. Fl. white-cream-yellow, Aug to Oct or Jan to Feb. Sandy soils, stony clay-loam. Flats, dunes.
Scientific Description
Shrub, spines absent; branchlets verrucose (warty), +/- cylindrical in cross-section, glabrous. Leaves alternate, simple, 3-7.5 mm long, 0.8-1.2 mm wide, flat, the margins revolute, verrucose (warty), glabrous; stipular excrescences absent. Flowers; calyx present, 1.5-1.8 mm long, verrucose (warty), glabrous; corolla white or cream, petals five, 2.5-3 mm long, imbricate (overlapping), free, glabrous; stamens twice as many as petals, 4-4.5 mm long, smooth, glabrous; anthers 0.5-0.7 mm long, without an appendage. Flowers in January, February, August, September and October. Occurs in the Eremaean and South-West Botanical Province, in the Coolgardie, Hampton, Avon Wheatbelt, Mallee and Esperance IBRA region(s).