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Synaphea polypodioides R.Butcher

Reference
Nuytsia 17:108-112, Fig.4(2007)
Conservation Code
Priority Three
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Clumped shrub (sunshrub), 0.35-0.4 m high. Light brown loam, red-brown sandy loam, gravelly, brown sandy clay over laterite. In undulating areas.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 17 March 2008
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Scientific Description

Shrubs; branchlets hairy. Leaves alternate, (140-)170-225 mm long, glabrous; petiole glabrous; lamina flat, once divided, tripartitely divided, deeply divided; distance from base of leaf to lowest lobe 30-140 mm; terminal leaf lobe 10-40 mm long, 4-7 mm wide; lowest lobes 25-75 mm long. Inflorescences yellow; scape 155-400 mm long; floral bracts 2-2.2 mm long. Perianth 5-7 mm long, glabrous; adaxial tepal 5-7 mm long; abaxial tepal 4.5-6.5 mm long; ovary hairy, style glabrous; style including stigmatic disc 2.7-3 mm long, strongly concave; stigma 1.5 mm long, 1-1.5 mm wide. Flowers in September, October or November. Occurs in the 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, Swan Coastal Plain.
IBRA Subregions
Perth, Southern Jarrah Forest.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Busselton, Capel, Dardanup, Donnybrook-Balingup.