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Tephrosia sphaerospora F.Muell.

Reference
S.Sci.Rec. 3:128 (1883)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Prostrate or erect herb or shrub, 0.2-1 m high. Fl. orange, Jul. Red sand. Dunes.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 20 September 1999

Scientific Description

Erect or prostrate,spreading or scrambling, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, not spiny, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, compound, alternate, not continuous with stem, 60-100 mm long, hairy, flat with flat margins; margins entire, leaflets 3-5, pinnately arranged, terminal leaflet present, stalked. Calyx 3-4 mm long, not accrescent. Corolla 5-7 mm long, uniformly coloured, pink or orange. Stamens ten; filaments united in an open sheath with one free stamen. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), 20-40 mm long, 4(-5) mm wide, sessile or subsessile, constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, glabrous, not beaked. Flowers in February. Occurs in the Eremaean Botanical Province, in the Great Sandy Desert, Gibson Desert and Central Ranges IBRA regions.

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Carnarvon, Central Ranges, Gibson Desert, Great Sandy Desert.
IBRA Subregions
Lateritic Plain, Mackay, Mann-Musgrave Block, Wooramel.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
East Pilbara, Ngaanyatjarraku, Upper Gascoyne.