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Synaphea diabolica R.Butcher

Reference
Nuytsia 17:100-104, Fig.2 (2007)
Conservation Code
Priority Three
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Clumped, sprawling shrub (subshrub), 0.2-0.6 m high. Dry, yellow-brown laterite soil with laterite gravel. In undulating areas.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 17 March 2008
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Scientific Description

Shrubs; branchlets hairy. Leaves alternate, 55-235 mm long, hairy; petiole hairy; lamina flat, twice or more divided, tripartitely divided, deeply divided, indumentum spreading; distance from base of leaf to lowest lobe 70-150 mm; terminal leaf lobe 5-10 mm long, 2-5 mm wide; lowest lobes 30-55 mm long. Inflorescences yellow; scape 115-245 mm long; floral bracts 1.5-2.3 mm long. Perianth 5-6.7 mm long, hairy; adaxial tepal 5-6.7 mm long; abaxial tepal 5-6 mm long; ovary hairy, style glabrous; style including stigmatic disc 3.5-4.5 mm long, lobed; stigma 1-1.2 mm long, 0.8-1 mm wide. Flowers in August, September or October. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Jarrah Forest (JF) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Priority Three (P3).

C. Hollister and K.R. Thiele, 19 January 2024

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Jarrah Forest.
IBRA Subregions
Northern Jarrah Forest, Southern Jarrah Forest.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Beverley, Busselton, Northam, York.