- Reference
- Fl.Austral. 2:104 (1864)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Erect, bushy shrub, to 2.5 m high. Fl. orange&yellow&red&white, Aug to Oct. Well-drained sandy loam or sand over granite or laterite. Lateritic ridges, breakaways, flats.
Scientific Description
Erect, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, spiny at least in part, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, opposite, continuous with stem, 20-40 mm long, 5-20 mm wide, hairy, with simple hairs, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present and persistent to older leaves, 4-4.5 mm long, without glands, ribless. Pedicel present, 2.5-3 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present but early deciduous, hairy or glabrous, striate or not striate. Calyx 3.5-5.6 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 9-9.5 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow, red or orange, with some yellow, red or orange spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 9-9.5 mm long, glabrous, auriculate, wings 6.5-7 mm long, auriculate, keel 6.5 mm long, not beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.6-0.7 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 4.5-5 mm long. Ovary stipitate, hairy or glandular; style 7 mm long, hairy or glandular towards the base, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), stipitate, not constricted between the seeds, round in cross-section, not beaked. Flowers in August, September and October. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain IBRA regions.
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain.
- IBRA Subregions
- Dandaragan Plateau, Katanning, Northern Jarrah Forest.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Chittering, Cuballing, Gingin, Goomalling, Narrogin, Northam, Toodyay, Victoria Plains, Williams.