- Reference
- Icon.Pl. 5:Tab.417 (1842)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Ascending, fleshy perennial, herb or shrub, 0.1-1 m high. Fl. white-green/yellow-cream, May to Jun or Sep to Oct. Sandy & clayey soils. Margins of salt lakes, salt pans, clay depressions.
Scientific Description
Shrub, with hairy stems. Leaves 10-25 mm long, 2-6 mm wide, not lobed; margins crenate; hairy, with stellate hairswith scales scales, Sessile glands absent; stipules present and persistent to older leaves. Perianth clearly of two whorls (calyx and corolla), the corolla obvious and prominent. Pedicel absent (flower sessile). Epicalyx (extra segments or 'bracteoles' immediately below the calyx) absent. Calyx 4 mm long, the lobes fused half or more of their length, Sessile glands absent, simple hairs (without tubercle bases) absent, stellate hairs present, tubercle-based simple hairs absent, gland-tipped hairs absent, scales absent, Terminal appendages absent, number of ribs absent. Corolla yellow, white, cream or green, 5.2 mm long, glabrous, scales absent. Indumentum (outside) Sessile glands absent. Stamens many, united and arising from a staminal tube around the style; filaments present, 1 mm long; anthers 1 mm long, indumentum absent (anthers glabrous). Staminodes absent, appendages absent. Ovary hairs and scales absent (ovary quite glabrous); style 1, 4-4.5 mm long, with one or numerous style branches or lobes, mostly glabrous, wing absent. Flowering time May, June, September or October. Distribution Botanical Province Eremaean or South-West, IBRA Bioregion Great Sandy Desert, Pilbara, Gascoyne, Central Ranges, Yalgoo, Murchison, Great Victorian Desert, Coolgardie, Nullarbor, Hamton, Geraldton Sandplains, Swan Coastal Plain, Avon Wheatbelt and Esperance.
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Avon Wheatbelt, Central Ranges, Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Gascoyne, Geraldton Sandplains, Gibson Desert, Great Sandy Desert, Great Victoria Desert, Hampton, Little Sandy Desert, Mallee, Murchison, Nullarbor, Pilbara, Swan Coastal Plain, Yalgoo.
- IBRA Subregions
- Ashburton, Augustus, Carlisle, Carnegie, Central, Eastern Goldfield, Eastern Mallee, Eastern Murchison, Fitzgerald, Fortescue, Hampton, Lateritic Plain, Lesueur Sandplain, Mackay, Mann-Musgrave Block, McLarty, Merredin, Perth, Recherche, Shield, Southern Cross, Tallering, Trainor, Western Mallee, Western Murchison.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Ashburton, Carnamah, Coorow, Cue, Dandaragan, Dundas, East Pilbara, Esperance, Irwin, Jerramungup, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Kondinin, Kulin, Lake Grace, Laverton, Meekatharra, Menzies, Morawa, Mount Magnet, Murchison, Ngaanyatjarraku, Nungarin, Plantagenet, Ravensthorpe, Waroona, Wiluna, Yalgoo.