Synaphea drummondii
Synaphea drummondii is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub with hairy branchlets, somewhat fan-shaped, wavy, pinnatipartite leaves and spikes of openly spaced yellow flowers.
Description
Synaphea drummondii is a shrub with woolly hairy stems up to long and hairy branchlets. The leaves are fan-shaped, but pinnatipartite, long, wide on a petiole long and twice divided, the end lobes wavy, broadly triangular and wide. The flowers are yellow and borne in rather openly spaced spikes long on a peduncle long. The perianth is ascending with a wide opening, the upper tepal long and wide, the lower tepal long. The stigma is more or less round to egg-shaped, long and wide and flat, the ovary covered with silky hairs. Flowering occurs between July and September.
Taxonomy
Synaphea drummondii was first formally published in 1852, but without formal description, by Carl Meissner in Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany from specimens collected in the Swan River Colony by James Drummond.
Distribution and habitat
This species of Synaphea grows in sand over laterite in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains and Mallee bioregions of south-western Western Australia.
Conservation status
Synaphea drummondii is listed as "Priority Three" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, meaning that it is poorly known and known from only a few locations but is not under imminent threat.