''Synaphea bifurcata'' is a shrub endemic to

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. The bushy shrub typically grows to a height of . 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. It blooms between September and November producing yellow flowers. The stigma in the flower is entire to emarginate or 2-lobed to less than a half and the ovary has an

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ring of translucent glands. The species was first formally described in 1995 by the botanist

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in P.M.McCarthy's work ''Appendix: Synaphea'' as published in the journal ''

Flora of Australia The flora of Australia comprises a vast assemblage of plant species estimated to over 21,000 vascular and 14,000 non-vascular plants, 250,000 species of fungi and over 3,000 lichens. The flora has strong affinities with the flora of Gondwana, ...

''. It is found in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia between Ravensthorpe and

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where it grows in sandy-clay-loam soils over

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Synaphea bifurcata Eudicots of Western Australia bifurcata Endemic flora of Western Australia Plants described in 1995