- Reference
- Nuytsia 5:160-161,Fig.1b (1984)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Many-stemmed, leafless shrub, 0.25-0.6 m high. Fl. yellow/orange & red/black, May to Sep. White or grey sand, laterite. Sandplains, flats.
Scientific Description
Erect, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, spiny at least in part, glabrous; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades absent or apparently so (reduced to scales), alternate, terete. Stipules apparently absent even from the youngest leaves. Pedicel present, 2.5-4 mm long, glabrous. Bracteoles absent. Calyx 2.5-2.6 mm long, not accrescent, glabrous, ribbed; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 5.5-7 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow, red, orange or brown, with some yellow, red, orange or brown spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 5.2-6.2 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 4-4.2 mm long, not auriculate, keel 4-4.3 mm long, 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), 3-4 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, glabrous; style 4-4.5 mm long, glabrous, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), 12-15 mm long, 7-10 mm wide, sessile or subsessile, not constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, glabrous, beaked. Flowers in May, June, July, August and September. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Geraldton Sandplains, Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain IBRA regions.
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain.
- IBRA Subregions
- Dandaragan Plateau, Lesueur Sandplain, Merredin, Northern Jarrah Forest, Perth.
- IMCRA Regions
- Central West Coast.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Armadale, Bayswater, Belmont, Carnamah, Chittering, Claremont, Cockburn, Coorow, Dandaragan, Gingin, Gosnells, Irwin, Kalamunda, Melville, Moora, Morawa, Mundaring, Nedlands, Perenjori, Perth, Rockingham, South Perth, Stirling, Subiaco, Swan, Wanneroo.