- Reference
- Enum.Pl.Austral.Occ. 57 (1930)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Erect, much-branched, spiny shrub, (0.1-)0.3-2 m high. Fl. yellow & red/purple/brown, Jun to Nov. White, yellow or red sand, sandy clay, limestone. Granite outcrops, rocky hills, sand dunes, sandplains.
Scientific Description
Prostrate,spreading or scrambling, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems angular, spiny at least in part, glabrous; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades absent or apparently so (reduced to scales), alternate, continuous with stem, glabrous, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present but early deciduous ( only visible on youngest leaves ). Pedicel present, 3-3.5 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present and persistent, 1.3-1.8 mm long, hairy, not striate. Calyx 5.5-7 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribbed; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 10.5-14.5 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow, red or purple, with some yellow, red or purple spots, streaks or blotches; claws absent; standard 9-12 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 7.5-9 mm long, not auriculate, keel 6-7 mm long, not beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.5-0.6 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 4.2-6 mm long. Ovary glabrous; style 5.2-5.7 mm long glabrous, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), 10 mm long, 6 mm wide, stipitate, not constricted between the seeds, round in cross-section, glabrous, not beaked. Flowers in June, July, August, September, October and November. Occurs in the Eremaean and South-West Botanical Province, in the Great Sandy Desert, Carnarvon, Central Ranges, Yalgoo, Murchison, Coolgardie, Geraldton Sandplains, Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Esperance and Swan Coastal Plain IBRA regions.
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Avon Wheatbelt, Carnarvon, Central Ranges, Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains, Great Sandy Desert, Great Victoria Desert, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Murchison, Swan Coastal Plain, Yalgoo.
- IBRA Subregions
- Cape Range, Eastern Goldfield, Eastern Mallee, Eastern Murchison, Edel, Fitzgerald, Geraldton Hills, Katanning, Lesueur Sandplain, Mackay, Mann-Musgrave Block, Merredin, Northern Jarrah Forest, Perth, Recherche, Shield, Southern Cross, Tallering, Western Mallee, Western Murchison, Wooramel.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Albany, Armadale, Bruce Rock, Carnamah, Carnarvon, Chapman Valley, Coolgardie, Corrigin, Cue, Dalwallinu, Dandaragan, Dowerin, Esperance, Exmouth, Goomalling, Gosnells, Greater Geraldton, Jerramungup, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Kellerberrin, Koorda, Kulin, Lake Grace, Menzies, Merredin, Moora, Morawa, Mount Marshall, Mukinbudin, Mundaring, Murchison, Narembeen, Ngaanyatjarraku, Northam, Northampton, Nungarin, Perenjori, Ravensthorpe, Shark Bay, Tammin, Victoria Plains, Westonia, Wongan-Ballidu, Yalgoo, Yilgarn, York.