- Reference
- Austral.Syst.Bot. 18:186, Fig. 6e (2005)
- Conservation Code
- Priority Two
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Procumbent or erect, sparse or bushy shrub, 0.1-0.6 m high. Coarse loam and sandy clay with laterite gravel. Upper slopes of ridges.
Scientific Description
Erect or prostrate,spreading or scrambling, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, not spiny, glabrous; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, alternate, not continuous with stem, 7.5-13 mm long, 0.7-1 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, 4.8-5 mm long, hairy, not striate. Calyx 8-9 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 10.5-13 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow or brown, with some yellow or brown spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 9.5-12 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 8-10 mm long, not auriculate, keel 8-10 mm long, not beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.5-0.6 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 8-8.6 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, hairy or glandular; style 8.3-9 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, October and November. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Avon Wheatbelt and Esperance IBRA regions. Conservation Code Priority Two (P2).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains.
- IBRA Subregions
- Fitzgerald, Katanning, Merredin.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Bruce Rock, Narrogin, Ravensthorpe, Wagin, Wickepin.