Synaphea drummondii
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| Synaphea drummondii | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Proteales |
| Family: | Proteaceae |
| Genus: | Synaphea |
| Species: | S. drummondii |
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| Synaphea drummondii | |
Synaphea drummondii is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub with hairy branchlets, somewhat fan-shaped, wavy, pinnatipartite leaves and spikes of openly spaced yellow flowers.
Synaphea drummondii is a shrub with woolly hairy stems up to 6 cm (2.4 in) long and hairy branchlets. The leaves are fan-shaped, but pinnatipartite, 40–80 mm (1.6–3.1 in) long, 60–100 mm (2.4–3.9 in) wide on a petiole 70–200 mm (2.8–7.9 in) long and twice divided, the end lobes wavy, broadly triangular and 5–10 mm (0.20–0.39 in) wide. The flowers are yellow and borne in rather openly spaced spikes 30–100 mm (1.2–3.9 in) long on a peduncle 70–100 mm (2.8–3.9 in) long. The perianth is ascending with a wide opening, the upper tepal 4.8–5.5 mm (0.19–0.22 in) long and 2.0–2.3 mm (0.079–0.091 in) wide, the lower tepal 3.5–4.2 mm (0.14–0.17 in) long. The stigma is more or less round to egg-shaped, 0.9–1.0 mm (0.035–0.039 in) long and 1.0–1.2 mm (0.039–0.047 in) wide and flat, the ovary covered with silky hairs. Flowering occurs between July and September.[2][3]
Taxonomy
Synaphea drummondii was first formally published in 1852, but without formal description, by Carl Meissner in Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany from specimens collected in the Swan River Colony by James Drummond.[4][5]