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Templetonia battii F.Muell.

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.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 6 August 1996
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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.

C. Hollister and K.R. Thiele, 24 October 2023

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.