''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 ''

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

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and

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where it grows in sandy-clay-loam soils over

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