Templetonia ceracea I.Thomps.

Scientific Description

Erect, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, not spiny, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades absent or apparently so (reduced to scales), alternate, not continuous with stem, hairy, with simple hairs, flat with recurved margins; margins entire; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present and persistent to older leaves. Pedicel present, 0.5-1.5 mm long, glabrous. Bracteoles present and persistent, 1.5-1.8 mm long, glabrous, not striate. Calyx 3-4 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 7-9 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow or brown, with some yellow or brown spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 5-7.5 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 5.2-6 mm long, auriculate, keel 5-8 mm long, not beaked, auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.2-0.3 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments united in an open sheath, 4.5-6 mm long. Ovary stipitate, glabrous; style 5.5-7.5 mm long, glabrous, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), 7-10 mm long, 4-7 mm wide, stipitate, not constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, not beaked. Flowers in July, August, September and October. Occurs in the Eremaean and South-West Botanical Province, in the Murchison, Coolgardie, Avon Wheatbelt and Mallee IBRA regions.