- Reference
- Austral.Syst.Bot. 20:66 (2007)
- Conservation Code
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Threatened
A taxon name retains its ‘Threatened’ status until a new name has been officially endorsed and appears in the Gazettal Notice.
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Non-lignotuberous shrub, to 1 m high, to 1 m wide. Fl. orange-brown, Jun to Jul. Lateritic breakaways.
Scientific Description
Shrubs, 0.75-1 m high; branchlets hairy. Leaves petiolate, alternate, 130-360 mm long, 35-70 mm wide, hairy; petiole 15-25 mm long; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, divided to the midrib, with 9-13 lobes on each side, the margins flat. Inflorescences silky (with soft, shiny and appressed hairs) or villous (with soft, shaggy, weak and straight hairs), yellow, orange or brown; innermost bracts 18-30 mm long, hairy. Perianth 50-55 mm long, hairy, all over, limb apex silky (with soft, shiny and appressed hairs), without awns; pistil 46-64 mm long, curved, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous or hairy, hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), obovate, 15-17 mm long. Flowers in June or July. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Geraldton Sandplains (GS) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Threatened (T).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Geraldton Sandplains.
- IBRA Subregions
- Lesueur Sandplain.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Coorow, Dandaragan.