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Jacksonia gracillima Chappill

Reference
Austral.Syst.Bot. 20:618-620 (2007)
Conservation Code
Priority Three
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current
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Scientific Description

Prostrate,spreading or scrambling, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, spiny at least in part, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades absent or apparently so (reduced to scales), alternate, not continuous with stem, hairy, with simple hairs, flat with flat margins; margins entire or dentate; tubercles absent, 0.5-1; pustules or glands absent. Stipules apparently absent even from the youngest leaves. Pedicel present, 4-5 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present and persistent, 0.5-1.5 mm long, hairy, not striate. Calyx 10-12 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 10-13.5 mm long, uniformly coloured, pink; claws present; standard 7-9 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 6.5-9 mm long, not auriculate, keel 9-10.5 mm long, not beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.5-0.7 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 8-9 mm long. Ovary stipitate, hairy or glandular; style 10-11.5 mm long, hairy or glandular towards the base, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), stipitate or sessile or subsessile, not constricted between the seeds, round in cross-section, not beaked. Flowers in October and November. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Swan Coastal Plain IBRA regions. Conservation Code Priority Three (P3).

C. Hollister and K.R. Thiele, 24 October 2023

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Swan Coastal Plain.
IBRA Subregions
Perth.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Armadale, Busselton, Canning, Capel, Cockburn, Dardanup, Gosnells, Kwinana, Murray, Serpentine-Jarrahdale, Swan.