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Synaphea decorticans

Synaphea decorticans
Photo: Kevin Thiele from Perth, Australia, CC BY 2.0
Family
Proteaceae (Protea family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
SW. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Synaphea decorticans is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a dense shrub with pinnatipartite leaves, spikes of moderately crowded yellow flowers and elliptic fruit with a short beak.

Where it grows

This species of Synaphea grows in lateritic soil and is common in jarrah-marri forest on the Darling Scarp between Chittering and Collie in the Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions of south-western Western Australia.

Other Synaphea plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Synaphea decorticans 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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