Synaphea bifurcata

Synaphea bifurcata is a shrub endemic to Western Australia.[1]

Synaphea bifurcata

Priority Three — Poorly Known Taxa (DEC)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Proteales
Family: Proteaceae
Genus: Synaphea
Species:
S. bifurcata
Binomial name
Synaphea bifurcata

The bushy shrub typically grows to a height of 0.3 to 0.5 metres (1.0 to 1.6 ft).[1] The leaves have lobes with incisions that extend more than half-way toward the midrib, are deeply forked with a cuneate or fan shape, that is once or twice bifurcate.[2] It blooms between September and November producing yellow flowers.[1] The stigma in the flower is entire to emarginate or 2-lobed to less than a half and the ovary has an apical ring of translucent glands.[2]

The species was first formally described in 1995 by the botanist Alexander Segger George in P.M.McCarthy's work Appendix: Synaphea as published in the journal Flora of Australia.[3]

It is found in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia between Ravensthorpe and Lake Grace where it grows in sandy-clay-loam soils over laterite.[1]

References
  1. "Synaphea bifurcata". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
  2. "Synaphea A.S.George". Flora of Australia Online. Australian National Botanic Gardens. Retrieved 30 November 2018.
  3. "Synaphea bifurcata A.S.George". Atlas of Living Australia. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 30 November 2018.


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