- Reference
- Nuytsia 12:253 (1998)
- Conservation Code
- Priority One
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Upright shrub, 0.3-0.9 m high. Fl. green-cream-yellow/red-pink, Apr or Jun to Jul or Sep. Sandy soils. Low plains, undulating rises, edges of salt lakes.
Scientific Description
Shrub, spines absent; branchlets verrucose (warty), +/- cylindrical in cross-section, covered in hairs or scales, the hairs stellate (star-shaped). Leaves opposite, simple, 5-10 mm long, 1.5-1.7 mm wide, subterete, verrucose (warty), glabrous; stipular excrescences present. Flowers axillary, solitary; pedicels 4.5-9 mm long; calyx present, 2.5-4 mm long, verrucose (warty), glabrous; corolla red, pink, yellow, white or cream or green, petals five, 9-11 mm long, imbricate (overlapping), free, hairy on the margins only; stamens twice as many as petals, 7-9 mm long, smooth, hairy; anthers 1.2(-1.3) mm long, with an appendage; style 5-7 mm long, hairy. Flowers in April, June, July and September. Occurs in the Eremaean and South-West Botanical Province, in the Yalgoo, Murchison, Coolgardie and Avon Wheatbelt IBRA region(s). Conservation Code: Priority One (P1).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Murchison, Yalgoo.
- IBRA Subregions
- Eastern Murchison, Merredin, Southern Cross, Tallering.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Mount Magnet, Mount Marshall, Perenjori, Yalgoo.