Pl. Victoria 1: 16, suppl. t. 1 (1862) APNI
Taxonomic status:Accepted
Occurrence status:Present
Establishment means:Native
Prostrate or decumbent shrubs with pubescent to glabrescent branches. Vestiture of tubercle-based simple hairs usually overlying stellate hairs. Leaves subsessile, linear-elliptic to linear-lanceolate, 4–14 mm long, 0.9–3 mm wide; apex obtuse, rarely acute, with terminal tuft of simple hairs; upper surface pubescent to glabrescent; margins narrow, revolute, scarcely raised above tomen-tose narrow central ridge. Flowers with peduncle 0–24 mm long, nodding after flowering, terminal on main shoots with one bract 2.2–3.7 mm long; sepals 3.3–9.4 mm long, accrescent, unequal, tomentose; petals obovate, 5.8–12.4.mm long, bright yellow; stamens 6–10 in one cluster; filaments usually free; carpels 2, tomentose.
CVU, DunT, Glep, Gold, GGr, HNF, LoM, VRiv, Wim.
Variable species with 3 subspecies, endemic in Victoria.
Bioregion | Occurrence status | Establishment means | |
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Lowan Mallee | present | native | |
Wimmera | present | native | |
Glenelg Plain | present | native | |
Victorian Riverina | present | native | |
Goldfields | present | native | |
Central Victorian Uplands | present | native | |
Greater Grampians | present | native | |
Dundas Tablelands | present | native | |
Highlands-Northern Fall | present | native |
State |
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Victoria |