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Aotus gracillima Meisn.

Reference
Lehm., Pl.Preiss. [J.G.C.Lehmann] 1:59 (1844)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect slender shrub, 0.6-2(-3) m high. Fl. yellow & red/brown, Aug to Dec. Peaty sand, sandy clay. Swamps, winter-wet flats.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 23 May 1996
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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, 3.5-8.5 mm long, 0.6-1 mm wide, hairy, with simple hairs, strongly recurved, appearing terete but with one or two grooves below; margins entire; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules apparently absent even from the youngest leaves. Pedicel present, 0.5-1.7 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles absent. Calyx 3.5-3.7 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 7.8-10 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow, red or brown, with some yellow, red or brown spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 7.8-9.5 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 7-7.3 mm long, not auriculate, keel 7.2-8 mm long, not beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.3-0.4 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 5.5-6 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, hairy or glandular; style 7.5-7.8 mm long, glabrous, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), sessile or subsessile, not constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, not beaked. Flowers in August, September, October, November and December. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Warren and Swan Coastal Plain IBRA regions.

C. Hollister and K.R. Thiele, 24 October 2023

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain, Warren.
IBRA Subregions
Dandaragan Plateau, Lesueur Sandplain, Northern Jarrah Forest, Perth, Southern Jarrah Forest, Warren.
IMCRA Regions
Leeuwin-Naturaliste.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Augusta Margaret River, Bayswater, Beverley, Boyup Brook, Busselton, Canning, Capel, Chittering, Cockburn, Collie, Coorow, Dandaragan, Gingin, Gosnells, Harvey, Kwinana, Manjimup, Melville, Murray, Nannup, Perth, Rockingham, Serpentine-Jarrahdale, South Perth, Swan, Wandering, Wanneroo, Waroona, West Arthur.