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Templetonia sulcata (Meisn.) Benth.
Centipede Bush

Reference
Fl.Austral. 2:171 (1864)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Multi-stemmed, leafless shrub, 0.3-3.2 m high. Fl. yellow & purple/brown, May or Jul to Sep. Variety of soils.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 6 August 1996
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Scientific Description

Erect. Stems terete, spiny at least in part, glabrous; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, alternate, continuous with stem, glabrous, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent, 1-4; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present and persistent to older leaves. Pedicel present, 1.2-1.5 mm long, glabrous. Bracteoles present and persistent, 2-2.3 mm long, glabrous, not striate. Calyx 4-4.5 mm long, not accrescent, glabrous, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 7.5-9 mm long, multicoloured, yellow, mostly brown or purple, with some brown or purple spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 7-8 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 6.5-7.2 mm long, auriculate, keel 5.5-6 mm long, not beaked, auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.2-0.3 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments united in an open sheath, 4-5.5 mm long. Ovary stipitate, glabrous; style 5-5.5 mm long, glabrous, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), 9-15 mm long, 1.5-2 mm wide, sessile or subsessile, not constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, glabrous, beaked. Flowers in May, July, August and September. Occurs in the Eremaean and South-West Botanical Province, in the Coolgardie, Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Esperance and Swan Coastal Plain IBRA regions.

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Swan Coastal Plain.
IBRA Subregions
Dandaragan Plateau, Katanning, Merredin, Northern Jarrah Forest, Southern Jarrah Forest, Western Mallee.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Beverley, Brookton, Broomehill-Tambellup, Bruce Rock, Carnamah, Corrigin, Dandaragan, Dowerin, Dumbleyung, Goomalling, Kellerberrin, Kondinin, Lake Grace, Moora, Narrogin, Northam, Pingelly, Trayning, Victoria Plains, Wagin, West Arthur, Yilgarn, York.