Synaphea floribunda

Synaphea floribunda is a prostrate to ascending shrub that typically grows to 10–30 cm (3.9–11.8 in) high and up to 1 m (3 ft 3 in) wide, with low-lying stems that are covered with soft hairs at first, later becoming glabrous. The leaves are lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, 40–120 mm (1.6–4.7 in) long and 8–18 mm (0.31–0.71 in) wide on a petiole 30–90 mm (1.2–3.5 in) long, the leaves sometimes with two or three teeth near the tip. The flowers are yellow and borne in crowded spikes 20–110 mm (0.79–4.33 in) long on hairy, sometimes branched peduncles 20–150 mm (0.79–5.91 in) long. There are hairy, spreading bracts 3.0–3.5 mm (0.12–0.14 in) long at the base of the peduncles. The perianth opens widely, the upper tepal is 6.0–6.5 mm (0.24–0.26 in) long and 2.5–3.0 mm (0.098–0.118 in) wide, the lower tepal 4.0–4.9 mm (0.16–0.19 in) long. The stigma is crescent moon-shaped with two horns, 1.5–2.0 mm (0.059–0.079 in) long and 1.8–2.0 mm (0.071–0.079 in) wide. Flowering occurs from September to November and the fruit is broadly oval, 3.5 mm (0.14 in) long and covered with soft hairs.

This species of Synaphea grows is sandy loam and gravelly sand in woodland and forest and is common between Yallingup and Ludlow and in scattered places to Lake Muir and Kojonup in the Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain and Warren bioregions of south-western Western Australia.