- Reference
- Austral.Syst.Bot. 14(2):162-166,Fig.3 (2001)
- Conservation Code
- Priority Three
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Erect shrub, to 0.9 m high. Fl. yellow & red, Sep. White-grey sand, red-brown clayey sand, laterite gravel and quartz pebbles. Gently undulating areas, flats, roadsides.
Scientific Description
Erect, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, not spiny, glabrous; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades absent or apparently so (reduced to scales), simple, alternate, not continuous with stem, glabrous; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules apparently absent even from the youngest leaves. Pedicel present, 2-2.6 mm long, glabrous. Bracteoles present and persistent. Calyx 2.2-3.2 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 5-6 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow or red, with some yellow or red spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 6 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 4-4.7 mm long, not auriculate, keel 4-5 mm long, not beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers (0.4-)0.5 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 4.6-5.6 mm long. Ovary stipitate, glabrous; style 5-6.2 mm long, hairy or glandular towards the base, bearded (with a tuft of hairs at apex), terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), stipitate, not constricted between the seeds, round in cross-section, not beaked. Flowers in September. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Mallee and Esperance IBRA regions. Conservation Code Priority Three (P3).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Esperance Plains, Mallee.
- IBRA Subregions
- Fitzgerald, Western Mallee.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Albany, Gnowangerup, Jerramungup, Kent, Ravensthorpe.