- Reference
- Bot.Not. 111:549 (1958)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Prostrate to ascending, woody perennial, herb, 0.05-0.5 m high. Fl. red/red-orange, Jan to May. Sandy soils. Sandstone & limestone ridges, along rives & creeks, rocky hillsides.
Scientific Description
Twining or climbing plants, herb. Stems terete, not spiny, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, compound, alternate, not continuous with stem, 10-35 mm long, hairy, with simple hairs, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent, leaflets 5-9, pinnately arranged, terminal leaflet present, stalked; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present and persistent to older leaves, 4-4.5 mm long, without glands, ribless. Pedicel present, 1.5 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present but early deciduous. Calyx 3-4.5 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 3-4 mm long, multicoloured, red, mostly yellow or red, with some yellow or red spots, streaks or blotches; claws absent; standard 6-6.5 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 5-6 mm long, not auriculate, keel 6.5-7.5 mm long, not beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; filaments united in an open sheath with one free stamen. Ovary hairy or glandular; style 3-4 mm long, hairy or glandular towards the base, bearded (with a tuft of hairs at apex), terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), 7.2 mm long, 2.6 mm wide, sessile or subsessile, not constricted between the seeds, round in cross-section, hairy, with simple hairs, not beaked. Flowers in January, February, March, April and May. Occurs in the Northern and Eremaean Botanical Province, in the Great Sandy Desert, Pilbara, Carnarvon, Gascoyne, Little Sandy Desert, Central Ranges, Victoria Bonaparte, Central Kimberley, Ord-Victorian-Plain and Dampierland IBRA regions.
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Carnarvon, Central Kimberley, Central Ranges, Dampierland, Gascoyne, Great Sandy Desert, Little Sandy Desert, Northern Kimberley, Ord Victoria Plain, Pilbara, Tanami, Victoria Bonaparte.
- IBRA Subregions
- Augustus, Cape Range, Carnegie, Chichester, Fitzroy Trough, Fortescue, Hamersley, Hart, Keep, Mackay, Mann-Musgrave Block, McLarty, Mitchell, Mount Eliza, Pentecost, Pindanland, Purnululu, Roebourne, Rudall, South Kimberley Interzone, Tanami Desert, Trainor, Wooramel.
- IMCRA Regions
- Canning, Ningaloo, Pilbara (nearshore).
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Ashburton, Broome, Carnarvon, Derby-West Kimberley, East Pilbara, Exmouth, Halls Creek, Karratha, Meekatharra, Ngaanyatjarraku, Port Hedland, Upper Gascoyne, Wiluna, Wyndham-East Kimberley.