Synaphea bifurcata explained

Synaphea bifurcata is a shrub endemic to Western Australia.

The bushy shrub typically grows to a height of 0.3to. The leaves have lobes with incisions that extend more than half-way toward the midrib, are deeply forked with a cuneate or fan shape, that is once or twice bifurcate.[1] It blooms between September and November producing yellow flowers. The stigma in the flower is entire to emarginate or 2-lobed to less than a half and the ovary has an apical ring of translucent glands.[1]

The species was first formally described in 1995 by the botanist Alexander Segger George in P.M.McCarthy's work Appendix: Synaphea as published in the journal Flora of Australia.[2]

It is found in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia between Ravensthorpe and Lake Grace where it grows in sandy-clay-loam soils over laterite.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Synaphea A.S.George. Flora of Australia Online. 30 November 2018. Australian National Botanic Gardens.
  2. Web site: Synaphea bifurcata A.S.George. 30 November 2018. Atlas of Living Australia. Global Biodiversity Information Facility.