Synaphea aephynsa
Synaphea aephynsa is a flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, tufted shrub with hairs pressed against the surface, pinnatipartite leaves, spike of crowded yellow flowers, and glabrous, narrowly egg-shaped fruit.
Description
Synaphea aephynsa is an erect, tufted shrub that typically grows to a height of up to and has woolly hairs pressed against the surface. The leaves are pinnatipartite, long and wide on a petiole long, the end lobes lance-shaped, more or less flat and wide. The flowers are borne on spikes long, crowded at first, on a peduncle long. The perianth is hairy inside, the upper tepal long and wide, the lower tepal long. Flowering occurs from July to October, and the fruit is narrowly egg-shaped, about long.Taxonomy
Synaphea aephynsa was first formally described in 1995 by AlexGeorge in the Flora of Australia from specimens he collected near Eneabba in 1993. The specific epithet is an anagram of the genus name Synaphea.