- Reference
- Austral.Syst.Bot. 18:185 (2005)
- Conservation Code
- Priority Three
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Procumbent or erect, sparse or bushy shrub, 0.1-0.6 m high. Sand, sandy clay or loamy sand, gravel. Gentle slopes, flat to undulating plains, adjacent to salt lake.
Scientific Description
Erect, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, not spiny, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, alternate, not continuous with stem, 10-14 mm long, 0.8-1 mm wide, hairy, with simple hairs, strongly recurved, appearing terete but with one or two grooves below; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present and persistent to older leaves. Pedicel absent (flowers sessile). Bracteoles present and persistent, 4 mm long, hairy, not striate. Calyx 7-8 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 10(-12) mm long, multicoloured, mostly orange or black, with some orange or black spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 9-12 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 8.5-10.5 mm long, not auriculate, keel 8-10.5 mm long, not beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.4-0.5 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 5-10 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, hairy or glandular; style 8-8.4 mm long, hairy or glandular towards the base, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), sessile or subsessile, not constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, not beaked. Flowers in September. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Mallee and Esperance IBRA regions. Conservation Code Priority Three (P3).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Mallee.
- IBRA Subregions
- Fitzgerald, Katanning, Western Mallee.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Kulin, Lake Grace, Ravensthorpe, Wagin.