- Reference
- Austral.Syst.Bot. 15:690 (2002)
- Conservation Code
- Priority Two
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Erect shrub, to 3 m high. Fl. red, Sep. Skeletal sandy soils. Mountain peaks.
Scientific Description
Erect, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems angular, not spiny, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, alternate, continuous with stem, 35-65 mm long, 15-25 mm wide, hairy, with simple hairs, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present and persistent to older leaves. Pedicel present, 3-3.5 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present but early deciduous. Calyx 11-12 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 20-22.5 mm long, uniformly coloured, red; claws present; standard 18-19 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 19.5-23 mm long, not auriculate, keel 22 mm long, not beaked, auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 1.1-1.2 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 20-23 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, hairy or glandular; style 17.5-23 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. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Esperance IBRA regions. Conservation Code Priority Two (P2).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Esperance Plains.
- IBRA Subregions
- Fitzgerald.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Cranbrook, Plantagenet.