Tadehagi robustum Pedley

Scientific Description

Erect, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, not spiny, glabrous; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, alternate, not continuous with stem, 35-80 mm long, 15-50 mm wide, glabrous, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present and persistent to older leaves, 10-15 mm long, without glands, ribless. Pedicel present, 3-3.5 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present and persistent, 1.5 mm long, hairy, not striate. Calyx 5-6 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 7.5-9 mm long, multicoloured, pink or red; claws absent; standard 7-8.5 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 5-6 mm long, not auriculate, keel 5-6 mm long, not beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.3 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short), 5-6 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, glabrous; style 6-6.5 mm long, glabrous, not bearded, terete. Fruit indehiscent and splitting into sections (schizocarps), 15-25 mm long, 7-8 mm wide, stipitate, constricted between the seeds, hairy, with simple hairs. Flowers in January, February and March. Occurs in the Northern Botanical Province, in the Northern Kimberley IBRA regions. Conservation Code Priority One (P1).