Synaphea pandurata
Synaphea pandurata is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south west of Western Australia. It is clumped shrub or subshrub with three-lobed to pinnatipartite leaves, and spikes of yellow, openly spaced flowers.
Description
Synaphea pandurata is a clumped shrub or subshrub with many stems long, its younger stems yellowish-pink to pink-red, the older stems with brown bark. Its leaves are usually three-lobed to pinnatipartite, long and wide, the end lobes linear, wide and wide on a petiole long. The flowers are borne in spikes up to long on a peduncle up to long on a yellowish-green and red rachis with egg-shaped to broadly triangular bracts long. The perianth is glabrous horizontal to gently ascending, the upper tepal long and wide and strongly curved, the lower tepal more or less flat, long, long. The stigma is more or less four-sided, long, wide with a mostly glabrous ovary. Flowering has been observed in September and October, and the fruit is cylindrical to oval, long and wide, including a golden brown to dark olive green beak.
Taxonomy
Synaphea pandurata was first formally described in 2007 by Ryonen Butcher in the journal Nuytsia from specimens collected in the Beverley Shire, south of the Brookton Highway in 1999. The specific epithet means pandurate referring to the shape of the stigma.
Distribution and habitat
This species of Synaphea occurs in sand and sandy loam in jarrah - marri forest on the eastern side of the Darling Range, west and south-west of Brookton in the Jarrah Forest bioregion of south-western Western Australia.
Synaphea pandurata 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.