Synaphea damopsis
Synaphea damopsis is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a tufted, low-lying shrub with fan-shaped leaves, spikes of more or less crowded yellow flowers and elliptic fruit with a short beak on the end.
Description
Synaphea damopsis is a tufted, low-lying shrub that typically grows to a height of up to and is covered with soft, spreading hairs. The leaves are fan-shaped, long and wide on a petiole long with triangular lobes on the end. The flowers are yellow and borne in more or less crowded spikes long on a peduncle up to long with blunt bracts long. The perianth has a moderately wide opening, the upper tepal long and about wide and gently curved, the lower tepal long. The stigma is shaped like a trapezium with the lobes bent back, concave, long and wide. Flowering occurs from September to November, and the fruit is elliptic, about long with a beak on the end.
Taxonomy
Synaphea damopsis was first formally described in 1995 by Alex George in the Flora of Australia from specimens he collected about south of Collie in 1973. The specific epithet means 'Dama -like', referring to lobes on the leaves.
Distribution and habitat
This species of Synaphea grows in lateritic gravel in jarrah forest on the Darling Scarp between Armadale, Dryandra and Collie in the Jarrah Forest and Warren bioregions of south-western Western Australia.
Conservation status
Synaphea damopsis is listed as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.