- Reference
- Australas.Chem.Druggist 2:31 (1887)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Mid-dense, spreading, leafless shrub, 0.2-1.4 m high, to 1.2 m wide. Fl. yellow & brown. Sand, clay loam, loam & gypsum. Near salt lakes.
Scientific Description
Erect, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, not spiny, glabrous; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades absent or apparently so (reduced to scales), alternate, not continuous with stem, flat with flat margins; margins entire, 0.5-1. Stipules present and persistent to older leaves. Pedicel present or absent (flowers sessile), 0.5 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present and persistent, 2-2.5 mm long, hairy, not striate. Calyx 3.6-4 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 7-8.5 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow or brown, with some yellow or brown spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 6-7 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 5-5.7 mm long, auriculate, keel 5-5.5 mm long, not beaked, auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments united in an open sheath, 5-5.5 mm long. Ovary stipitate, glabrous; style 6 mm long, glabrous, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), 10-15 mm long, 5-8 mm wide, stipitate, not constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, glabrous, beaked. Flowers in July, August and September. Occurs in the Eremaean and South-West Botanical Province, in the Coolgardie, Hampton, Mallee and Esperance IBRA regions.
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Hampton, Mallee.
- IBRA Subregions
- Fitzgerald, Hampton, Mardabilla, Recherche, Western Mallee.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Dundas, Esperance, Lake Grace, Ravensthorpe.