- Reference
- Austral.Syst.Bot. 15:704 (2002)
- Conservation Code
- Priority Two
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Erect, slender shrub, to 3 m high. Fl. yellow&orange&red&pink, Sep to Oct. Skeletal stony quartz. Hillsides.
Scientific Description
Erect or prostrate,spreading or scrambling, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, not spiny, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, opposite, not continuous with stem, 35-75 mm long, 5-25 mm wide, glabrous, flat with flat margins or flat with recurved margins; margins entire; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present and persistent to older leaves, 7.4-8.5 mm long, without glands, ribless. Pedicel present, 2.3-2.5 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present but early deciduous. Calyx 8-9 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 12-14 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow or orange, with some yellow or orange spots, streaks or blotches; claws absent; standard 12-13 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 12-13 mm long, not auriculate, keel 11-12.3 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), 9.5-12 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, hairy or glandular; style 10-13 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 and Esperance IBRA regions. Conservation Code Priority Two (P2).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest.
- IBRA Subregions
- Fitzgerald, Southern Jarrah Forest.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Cranbrook.