Synaphea polymorpha

Synaphea polymorpha, commonly known as Albany synaphea, is a species of small shrub in the flowering plant family Proteaceae. It is endemic to Western Australia.[1] The Noongar peoples know the plant as bindak.[2]

Synaphea polymorpha
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Proteales
Family: Proteaceae
Genus: Synaphea
Species:
S. polymorpha
Binomial name
Synaphea polymorpha

The shrub can have a slender or rounded habit and typically grows to a height of 0.15 to 0.7 metres (0.5 to 2.3 ft). It blooms between August and November producing yellow flowers. Found in woodlands[3] on hillsides, low-lying areas and swamps in the Great Southern region of Western Australia where it grows in sandy or clay-sand lateritic soils.[1]

The species was first formally described by the botanist Robert Brown in 1810 in the work On the natural order of plants called Proteaceae in the journal Transactions of the Linnean Society of London.[4]

References
  1. "Synaphea polymorpha R.Br". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
  2. "Noongar names for plants". kippleonline.net. Archived from the original on 20 November 2016. Retrieved 15 December 2016.
  3. Margaret G. Corrick and Bruce Alexander Fuhrer (2009). Wildflowers of Southern Western Australia. Rosenburg publishing. ISBN 9781877058844.
  4. "Synaphea polymorpha R.Br". Atlas of Living Australia. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 15 December 2016.
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