- Reference
- Austral.Syst.Bot. 15:698 (2002)
- Conservation Code
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Threatened
A taxon name retains its ‘Threatened’ status until a new name has been officially endorsed and appears in the Gazettal Notice.
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Tangled, clumped shrub, to 1.5 m high. Fl. cream-red, Oct to Dec. Sandy clay over ironstone and laterite. Flat plains.
Scientific Description
Shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, not spiny, glabrous; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, opposite, continuous with stem, 6-10 mm long, 12-30 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, 3-6 mm long, without glands, ribless. Pedicel present, 4-5 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present but early deciduous. Calyx 11-12.5 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 18-20 mm long, uniformly coloured, red; claws absent; standard 11-14 mm long, glabrous, auriculate, wings 16-17 mm long, auriculate, keel 17-18 mm long, not beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 1-1.2 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 13-17 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, hairy or glandular; style 17-18 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 October, November and December. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain IBRA regions. Conservation Code Threatened (T).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain.
- IBRA Subregions
- Perth, Southern Jarrah Forest.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Busselton.