- Conservation Code
- Priority One
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Scientific Description
Erect, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, not spiny, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, compound, alternate, continuous with stem, 25-80 mm long, hairy, with simple hairs, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent, leaflets 5-7, pinnately arranged, terminal leaflet present, stalked; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present and persistent to older leaves, 9.5-11 mm long, without glands, ribless. Pedicel present, 4-5.5 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present and persistent. Calyx 6-8.5 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 9-10 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow, green or purple, with some yellow, green or purple spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 9-10 mm long, hairy at least in part, not auriculate, wings 8-8.5 mm long, not auriculate, keel 7-7.5 mm long, not beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.5-0.7 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments united in an open sheath with one free stamen, 7-8.2 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, hairy or glandular; style 9.5-10 mm long, hairy or glandular towards the base, not bearded, flattened at apex. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), 40-45 mm long, 5-6 mm wide, sessile or subsessile, constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, hairy, with simple hairs, not beaked. Flowers in August and September. Occurs in the Eremaean Botanical Province, in the Carnarvon IBRA regions. Conservation Code Priority One (P1).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Carnarvon.
- IBRA Subregions
- Wooramel.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Carnarvon, Upper Gascoyne.