Synaphea bifurcata

Priority Three — Poorly Known Taxa (DEC)
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Proteales
Family: Proteaceae
Genus: Synaphea
Species:
S. bifurcata
Binomial name
Synaphea bifurcata

Synaphea bifurcata is a shrub endemic to Western Australia.[1]

The bushy shrub typically grows to a height of 0.3 to 0.5 metres (1.0 to 1.6 ft).[1] 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.[2] It blooms between September and November producing yellow flowers.[1] 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.[2]

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.[3]

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.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Synaphea bifurcata". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  2. 1 2 "Synaphea A.S.George". Flora of Australia Online. Australian National Botanic Gardens. Retrieved 30 November 2018.
  3. ↑ "Synaphea bifurcata A.S.George". Atlas of Living Australia. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 30 November 2018.


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