- Reference
- Austral.Syst.Bot. 15:585 (2002)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Small, compact shrub, to 1 m high. Fl. yellow&brown, Sep to Oct. Yellow-grey sand & sandy loam, brown gravelly clay, laterite, gravel. Slopes and hills.
Scientific Description
Erect, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, not spiny, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, whorled, continuous with stem, 5-11 mm long, 1-1.6 mm wide, glabrous, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules apparently absent even from the youngest leaves. Pedicel present, 2 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present but early deciduous. Calyx 5.7-6.5 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 9-10 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow or brown, with some yellow or brown spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 9-9.5 mm long, glabrous, auriculate, wings 7.7-8 mm long, auriculate, keel 7-7.5 mm long, not beaked, auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.7-0.8 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 6-7 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, hairy or glandular; style 7-8 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, hairy, with simple hairs, not beaked. Flowers in September and October. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest, Mallee and Esperance IBRA regions.
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee.
- IBRA Subregions
- Eastern Mallee, Fitzgerald, Katanning, Recherche, Southern Jarrah Forest, Western Mallee.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Broomehill-Tambellup, Dumbleyung, Esperance, Gnowangerup, Jerramungup, Kent, Lake Grace, Narrogin, Plantagenet, Ravensthorpe.