Synaphea macrophylla
Synaphea macrophylla is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to a restricted area in south-west of Western Australia. It is a low-lying shrub covered with soft hairs, fan-shaped, more or less flat or concave, simple or lobed leaves, spikes of moderately crowded yellow flowers, and oval fruit.
Description
Synaphea macrophylla is a low-lying shrub covered with soft hairs and with stems up to long. Its leaves are fan-shaped, more or less flat or concave, simple or with two to five short lobes, long and wide, narrowed gradually to a petiole long. The flowers are borne in moderately crowded spikes up to long on a peduncle up to long and covered with soft hairs. There are blunt, hairy bracts long at the base of the peduncle. The perianth is moderately ascending to spreading with a wide opening, the upper tepal long and wide, the lower tepal long. The stigma is oblong with two lobes long, wide with a hairy ovary. Flowering occurs in October, and the fruit is oval, long and hairy.
Taxonomy
Synaphea macrophylla 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 the Blackwood River on the Brockman Highway in 1993. The specific epithet means 'long- or 'large-leaved'.
Distribution and habitat
This species of Synaphea grows in gravelly loam between Augusta and Margaret [River, Western Australia|Margaret River] in the Jarrah Forest and Warren bioregions of south-western Western Australia.
Synaphea macrophylla is listed as is listed as "Priority One" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, meaning that it is known from only one or a few locations which are potentially at risk.