- Reference
- Austral.Syst.Bot. 20:68 (2007)
- Conservation Code
- Priority Three
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Straggly or erect, prickly, lignotuberous shrub, 0.3-1 m high. Fl. yellow, Oct. Sand, sandy loam or clay loam over laterite.
Scientific Description
Shrubs, 0.50-1 m high; branchlets glabrous or hairy. Leaves petiolate, alternate, 30-95 mm long, 10-25 mm wide, hairy; petiole 5-16 mm long; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, divided to the midrib, with 6-12 lobes on each side, the margins flat or revolute. Inflorescences silky (with soft, shiny and appressed hairs), yellow; innermost bracts 13-22 mm long, hairy. Perianth 22-25 mm long, hairy, all over, limb apex silky (with soft, shiny and appressed hairs), without awns; pistil 26-37 mm long, straight or curved, style hairy. Follicles hairy, pubescent (with soft, straight, erect hairs), 5-6 mm long. Flowers in October. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Mallee (MAL) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Priority Three (P3).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Avon Wheatbelt, Mallee.
- IBRA Subregions
- Katanning, Western Mallee.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Broomehill-Tambellup, Dumbleyung, Kent, Kulin, Narrogin, Wagin, Wickepin.