Synaphea pandurata

Synaphea pandurata is a clumped shrub or subshrub with many stems 20–100 mm (0.79–3.94 in) long, its younger stems yellowish-pink to pink-red, the older stems with brown bark. Its leaves are usually three-lobed to pinnatipartite, 50–100 mm (2.0–3.9 in) long and 45–95 mm (1.8–3.7 in) wide, the end lobes linear, 5–15 mm (0.20–0.59 in) wide and 3–11 mm (0.12–0.43 in) wide on a petiole 50–155 mm (2.0–6.1 in) long. The flowers are borne in spikes up to 40–194 mm (1.6–7.6 in) long on a peduncle up to 85–320 mm (3.3–12.6 in) long on a yellowish-green and red rachis with egg-shaped to broadly triangular bracts 1–2.2 mm (0.039–0.087 in) long. The perianth is glabrous horizontal to gently ascending, the upper tepal 4.4–5.6 mm (0.17–0.22 in) long and 2.0–2.8 mm (0.079–0.110 in) wide and strongly curved, the lower tepal more or less flat, 3.0–4.2 mm (0.12–0.17 in) long, 1.25–2.65 mm (0.049–0.104 in) long. The stigma is more or less four-sided, 0.8–1.4 mm (0.031–0.055 in) long, 0.9–1.3 mm (0.035–0.051 in) wide with a mostly glabrous ovary. Flowering has been observed in September and October, and the fruit is cylindrical to oval, 4.3–5.4 mm (0.17–0.21 in) long and 2.3–2.6 mm (0.091–0.102 in) wide, including a golden brown to dark olive green beak.^[2][3][4]

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.^[2][5] The specific epithet (pandurata) means pandurate referring to the shape of the stigma.^[2]