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Synaphea acutiloba

Synaphea acutiloba
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au
Family
Proteaceae (Protea family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
WSW. Western Australia

About

Synaphea acutiloba, commonly known as granite synaphea, is a flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is a shrub with many stems with very wavy, pinnatipartite leaves, spike of yellow flowers much longer than the foliage, and glabrous, more or less cylindrical fruit.

Where it grows

Granite synaphea grows in granitic and lateritic soils in kwongan and woodland along and just east of the Darling Scarp near Perth in the Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions of south-western Western Australia.

Other Synaphea plants

Synaphea aephynsa · Synaphea bifurcata · Synaphea boyaginensis · Synaphea brachyceras · Synaphea canaliculata · Synaphea cervifolia · Synaphea constricta · Synaphea cuneata · Synaphea damopsis · Synaphea decorticans · Synaphea decumbens · Synaphea diabolica

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Synaphea acutiloba by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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