- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Erect, small-branched shrub, to 1 m high. Fl. orange & red, Jun to Sep. Red-brown loam over clay, gravel, laterite. Well-drained slopes, adjacent to river.
Scientific Description
Erect, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems flattened, spiny at least in part, glabrous; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, alternate, continuous with stem, 4-40 mm long, 1.2-5 mm wide, glabrous; margins entire; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules apparently absent even from the youngest leaves. Pedicel present, 1.5-5 mm long, glabrous. Bracteoles absent. Calyx 2.5-3.2 mm long, not accrescent, glabrous, ribbed; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 6-7 mm long, multicoloured, mostly red or orange, with some red or orange spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 5-5.5 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 4.6-5 mm long, not auriculate, keel 4.5-5.5 mm long, beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.1-0.2 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 4.2-5 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, glabrous; style 4.5-5.5 mm long, glabrous, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), 7-10 mm long, 8-10 mm wide, sessile or subsessile, not constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, glabrous, beaked. Flowers in June, July, August and September. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain IBRA regions.
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain, Warren.
- IBRA Subregions
- Dandaragan Plateau, Fitzgerald, Geraldton Hills, Katanning, Lesueur Sandplain, Northern Jarrah Forest, Perth, Southern Jarrah Forest, Warren.
- IMCRA Regions
- Leeuwin-Naturaliste.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Albany, Armadale, Augusta Margaret River, Beverley, Boddington, Boyup Brook, Bridgetown-Greenbushes, Brookton, Broomehill-Tambellup, Bunbury, Busselton, Cambridge, Capel, Carnamah, Chittering, Claremont, Collie, Coorow, Cranbrook, Cuballing, Dandaragan, Denmark, Donnybrook-Balingup, Gingin, Gosnells, Harvey, Irwin, Kalamunda, Kojonup, Mandurah, Manjimup, Melville, Mundaring, Murray, Narrogin, Nedlands, Northam, Perth, Plantagenet, Serpentine-Jarrahdale, Swan, Three Springs, Toodyay, Victoria Plains, Wagin, Wandering, Wanneroo, Waroona, West Arthur, Williams, York.