Synaphea incurva
Synaphea incurva is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is a low-lying shrub with hairy stems, lance-shaped or lobed leaves, spikes of moderately crowded yellow flowers and elliptic fruit on a narrow neck.
Description
Synaphea incurva is a low-lying shrub with hairy stems up to long. The leaves are long, wide on a petiole long and lance-shaped or three-lobed to Pinnation#Depth of [divisions |pinnatipartite]. The flowers are yellow and borne in moderately crowded spikes long on a peduncle long. There are spreading, egg-shaped bracts long at the base of the peduncles. The perianth opens widely, the upper tepal more or less straight, long and wide, the lower tepal long. The stigma is egg-shaped and notched with curved lobes, long and wide. Flowering occurs in September and October and the fruit is elliptic with a narrow neck, long and glabrous or sparsely hairy.
Taxonomy
Synaphea incurva 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 near Albany airport. The specific epithet means 'bowed' or 'curved inwards', referring to the lobes of the stigma.
Distribution and habitat
This species of Synaphea grows in jarrah-marri woodland or shrubland just west and north-west of Albany in the Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Warren bioregions of southern Western Australia.
Synaphea incurva 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.