Trans. Linn. Soc. London 10: 187 (1810) APNI
Taxonomic status:Accepted
Occurrence status:Present
Establishment means:Sparingly established
Erect shrub, 2–5 m high; lignotuber absent; branchlets densely tomentose at flowering with reddish-brown hair. Leaves elliptic to broadly elliptic, 4.5–9.5 cm long, 15–55 mm wide, flat, apex obtuse to subacute; longitudinal veins 3–5, prominent. Inflorescence 35–40-flowered; pedicel glabrous; perianth cream to white, glabrous; pistil 6–7.5 mm long; pollen presenter conical. Fruit obliquely elliptic, 2.5–3.7 cm long, 1.5–2.5 cm wide, not or hardly beaked; horns lacking; seed not occupying whole valve face, obliquely ovate, 20–25 mm long; wing extending broadly down one side of the body, partially and narrowly down the other. Flowers Nov.–Jan.
*GipP, *OtP. WA (native). Native to the south coast of Western Australia, grown as an ornamental, occasionally escaping cultivation in Victoria.
Bioregion | Occurrence status | Establishment means | |
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Gippsland Plain | present | introduced | |
Otway Plain | present | introduced |
State |
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Western Australia |
South Australia |
Victoria |