- Reference
- Hooker's Icon.Pl. 28:Tab.2729 (1905)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Prostrate & spreading annual, herb, 0.1-0.25 m high. Fl. orange-red, Jan to Mar. Clay loam. Stony plains, creeklines.
Scientific Description
Prostrate,spreading or scrambling, herb. Stems terete, not spiny, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, compound, opposite, continuous with stem, 30-75 mm long, hairy, with simple hairs, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent, leaflets 5, palmately arranged, terminal leaflet present, sessile; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present and persistent to older leaves, 8-10 mm long, without glands, ribless. Pedicel present, 5-6.5 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present and persistent. Calyx 5-6.5 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 8.5-9 mm long, multicoloured, mostly red or orange, with some red or orange spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 7.6-9 mm long, hairy at least in part, not auriculate, wings 5.6-7.3 mm long, not auriculate, keel 6-7 mm long, not beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments united in an open sheath with one free stamen, 5-5.6 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, hairy or glandular; style 7-8 mm long, hairy or glandular towards the base, not bearded, flattened at apex. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), 25-27 mm long, 4-5 mm wide, sessile or subsessile, constricted between the seeds, round in cross-section, hairy, with simple hairs, not beaked. Flowers in January, February and March. Occurs in the Eremaean Botanical Province, in the Great Sandy Desert and Pilbara IBRA regions.
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Carnarvon, Great Sandy Desert, Murchison, Pilbara.
- IBRA Subregions
- Cape Range, Chichester, Hamersley, McLarty, Roebourne, Western Murchison.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Ashburton, East Pilbara, Karratha, Meekatharra, Port Hedland.