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 (botanist)|Alex George] in the Flora of [Australia (series)|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 [Woodland National Park|Dryandra] and Collie in the Jarrah Forest and Warren bioregions of south-western Western Australia.
Synaphea damopsis is listed as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.