Synaphea cuneata
Synaphea cuneata is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a low-lying or ascending shrub with wedge-shaped leaves, spikes of moderately crowded yellow flowers and elliptic to egg-shaped fruit.
Description
Synaphea cuneata is a low-lying or ascending shrub that typically grows to a height of up to and has few branches covered with soft, velvety hairs. The leaves are wedge-shaped, long and up to wide on a petiole long with blunt teeth on the edges with sparse, soft hairs. The flowers are yellow and borne in moderately crowded spikes long on a peduncle long with egg-shaped bracts. The perianth has a wide opening, the upper tepal about long and wide and gently convex, the lower tepal long. The stigma is elliptic, convex with spreading horns. Flowering occurs in September and October, and the fruit is elliptic to egg-shaped, about long and sparsely hairy.
Taxonomy
Synaphea cuneata was first formally described in 1995 by Alex [George (botanist)|Alex George] in the Flora of [Australia (series)|Flora of Australia] from specimens collected south of Bannister in 1993. The specific epithet means 'wedge-shaped', referring to the leaves.
Distribution and habitat
This species of Synaphea grows in lateritic soil in jarrah forest and sandy loam in wandoo woodland on the Darling Scarp between York and Bannister in the Avon Wheatbelt and Jarrah Forest bioregions of south-western Western Australia.
Synaphea cuneata is listed as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.