Synaphea gracillima
Synaphea gracillima is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a tufted shrub with several to many stems, pinnatipartite leaves with the end lobes broadly linear to lance-shaped, spikes of yellow flowers and narrowly oval fruit.
Description
Synaphea gracillima is a tufted shrub with several to many branched stems up to long, covered with soft hairs at first. The leaves are pinnatipartite, long and wide with several lobes, on a petiole long. The upper lobesare also pinnatipartite, the lower lobes less divided, the end lobes broadly linear to lance-shaped, wide, more or less flat and covered with soft hairs when young. The flowers are yellow and borne in more or less openly spaced spikes long and much longer than the leaves.The flowers are borne on a peduncle long with spreading bracts at the base. The perianth opens widely and is glabrous, the upper tepal long and wide, the lower tepal long. The stigma is oblong to crescent moon-shaped, long and wide. Flowering occurs from August to October and the fruit is narrowly egg-shaped, long and covered with a few soft hairs.