- Reference
- Austral.Syst.Bot. 15:700-701 (2002)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Shrub, to 0.5 m high. Sandy clay, quartz and laterite gravel. Flats, undulating sites.
Scientific Description
Erect, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, not spiny, glabrous; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, alternate, continuous with stem, 15-30 mm long, 5-9 mm wide, hairy, with simple hairs, flat with flat margins; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present and persistent to older leaves. Pedicel present, 2.5-3 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present but early deciduous. Calyx 5-5.5 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 9-11.5 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow, red or orange, with some yellow, red or orange spots, streaks or blotches; claws absent; standard 9-10.5 mm long, glabrous, auriculate, wings 5-5.5 mm long, auriculate, keel 6-7 mm long, not beaked, auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.5 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 3.5-3.7 mm long. Ovary stipitate, hairy or glandular; style 7-7.3 mm long, hairy or glandular towards the base, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), stipitate, not constricted between the seeds, round in cross-section, not beaked. Flowers in July, August and September. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Mallee and Esperance IBRA regions.
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Esperance Plains, Mallee.
- IBRA Subregions
- Fitzgerald, Western Mallee.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Jerramungup, Lake Grace, Ravensthorpe.