Synaphea flabelliformis
Synaphea flabelliformis is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an ascending or low-lying, tufted shrub with fan-shaped leaves and spikes of crowded yellow flowers.
Description
Synaphea flabelliformis is an ascending or low-lying, tufted shrub with stems up to long, sometimes with a few branches, and covered with fine, soft hairs. The leaves are fan-shaped, long and wide with coarse teeth or short lobes, on a petiole long. The flowers are yellow and borne in crowded spikes long on a peduncle up to long. The perianth is moderately open, the upper tepal spoon-shaped, strongly curved and long and wide, the lower tepal long. The stigma is curved, elliptic with a broad notch at the end, long and wide. Flowering occurs from July to October and the fruit is long.
Taxonomy
Synaphea flabelliformis was first formally described in 1995 by Alex George in the Flora of Australia from specimens he collected in the Boyagin Nature Reserve in 1971. The specific epithet means 'small fan-shaped', referring to the leaves.
Distribution and habitat
This species of Synaphea occurs between Toodyay, Narrogin and the Wickepin area in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains and Jarrah Forest bioregions of south-western Western Australia where it grows in sandy-gravelly soils over laterite.
Conservation status
Synaphea flabelliformis is listed as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife.