- Reference
- Austral.Syst.Bot. 15:685 (2002)
- Conservation Code
- Priority Three
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Spreading shrub, to 0.5 m high. Fl. yellow&red, Sep. Sand & clayey sand with gravel, rocky loams, laterite. Flats, gently undulating areas.
Scientific Description
Shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, not spiny, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, alternate, continuous with stem, 3-5.5 mm long, 2-3 mm wide, hairy or glabrous, with simple hairs, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present and persistent to older leaves. Pedicel present, 1.7-3 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present but early deciduous. Calyx 4-5 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 8-10 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow or red, with some yellow or red spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 7.5-10 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 5.5-7 mm long, not auriculate, keel 5.6-8.2 mm long, not beaked, auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.6-0.7 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 4-6 mm long. Ovary stipitate, hairy or glandular; style 6.2-9 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 September and October. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Jarrah Forest IBRA regions. Conservation Code Priority Three (P3).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Esperance Plains, Mallee.
- IBRA Subregions
- Eastern Mallee, Fitzgerald, Western Mallee.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Dumbleyung, Kent, Lake Grace, Ravensthorpe.