- Reference
- Hooker's J.Bot.Kew Gard.Misc. 7:74 (1855)
- Conservation Code
- Priority Three
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Diffuse or spreading shrub, (0.4-)0.9-1.5(-2.5) m high. Fl. white/pink-white, Jun to Oct. Sandy loam on sandstone or limestone, lateritic soils.
Scientific Description
Shrubs, 1-1.5 m high; branchlets hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 30-75 mm long, 3-8 mm wide, hairy, on the adaxial or abaxial surface, the hairs straight; lamina flat, once divided, tripartitely divided, divided to the midrib; lobes 10-40 mm long, 1-8 mm wide, the margins recurved. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, white; pedicels 5-8 mm long. Perianth 3-4 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, glabrous; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 1.5-2 mm long; pistil 3-4.5 mm long, white, pollen presenter conical, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 8-10 mm long. Flowers in July, August, September or October. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Geraldton Sandplains (GS) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Priority Three (P3).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Geraldton Sandplains.
- IBRA Subregions
- Geraldton Hills.
- IMCRA Regions
- Central West Coast.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Chapman Valley, Greater Geraldton, Northampton.