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- Reference
- Nuytsia 17:484-486, Fig.1 (2007)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Not Current
Erect shrub, 0.25-1 m high. Sandy clay on quartzite or sandstone shale. Montane areas.
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, 5(-11) mm long, 2(-3) mm wide, hairy, with simple hairs, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules apparently absent even from the youngest leaves. Pedicel present, 2 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles absent. Calyx 5 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 8.5 mm long, uniformly coloured, yellow; claws present; standard 8.5 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 8 mm long, not auriculate, keel 8 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), 6(-7) mm long. Ovary stipitate or sessile or subsessile, hairy or glandular; style 8 mm long, hairy or glandular towards the base, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), stipitate, not constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, not beaked. Flowers in January, November and December. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Esperance IBRA regions. Conservation Code Threatened (T).