Daviesia nudiflora

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Daviesia nudiflora
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Genus: Daviesia
Species:
D. nudiflora
Binomial name
Daviesia nudiflora

Daviesia nudiflora is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a bushy shrub with sharply pointed, egg-shaped to elliptic or oblong phyllodes, and yellow-orange flowers with reddish-brown markings.

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Description

Daviesia nudiflora is a bushy shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 0.3–2.5 m (1 ft 0 in – 8 ft 2 in) and has more or less angular or ridged branchlets. Its phyllodes are sharply pointed, egg-shaped to elliptic or oblong, 4–50 mm (0.16–1.97 in) long, 2–18 mm (0.079–0.709 in) wide, but sometimes scale-like and 1–4 mm (0.039–0.157 in) long near the base of the plant. The flowers are arranged singly or in pairs in the axils on a peduncle 0.5–2 mm (0.020–0.079 in) long, the pedicel 2–7 mm (0.079–0.276 in) long with bracts at the base of the peduncle. The sepals are 3.0–4.5 mm (0.12–0.18 in) long and joined at the base, the two upper lobes joined for most of their length and the lower three broadly triangular and about 1 mm (0.039 in) long. The standard petal is egg-shaped or elliptic, about 7–12 mm (0.28–0.47 in) long and 7–11 mm (0.28–0.43 in) wide, and yellow-orange with a red to brown base. The wings are 7–10 mm (0.28–0.39 in) long and red, and the keel is 6–10 mm (0.24–0.39 in) long and red. Flowering occurs from May to September and the fruit is a slightly flattened triangular pod 10–14 mm (0.39–0.55 in) long. [2] [3] [4]

Taxonomy

Daviesia nudiflora was first formally described in 1844 by Carl Meissner in Lehmann's Plantae Preissianae from specimens collected near Lake Monger in 1839. [5] [6] The specific epithet (nudiflora) means "naked-flowered". [7]

In 1995, Michael Crisp described four subspecies and the names are accepted by the Australian Plant Census:

Distribution and habitat

This daviesia grows in mallee-heath with a shrubby understorey, and is widespread in the northern half of the wheatbelt, from near Kalbarri to near Lake Grace with disjunct populations near Bunbury and Southern Cross. Subspecies amplectens is restricted to the area from near Cadoux to near Dowerin, subsp. drummondii between Ballidu, York and Corrigin. Subspecies hirtella is found between Kalbarri, Regans Ford and Corrigin, and subsp. nudiflora has about the same distribution as the species, in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee and Swan Coastal Plain biogeographic regions of south-western Western Australia [2] [3] [9] [11] [13] [15]

Conservation status

Daviesia nudiflora is listed as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, [3] but subsp. drummondii is listed as "Priority Three", [11] meaning that it is poorly known and known from only a few locations but is not under imminent threat, and subsp. amplectens as "Priority One", [9] meaning that it is known from only one or a few locations that are potentially at risk. [16]

Related Research Articles

<i>Daviesia</i> Genus of plants

Daviesia, commonly known as bitter-peas, is a genus of about 130 species of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, and is endemic to Australia. Plants in the genus Daviesia are shrubs or small trees with leaves modified as phyllodes or reduced to scales. The flowers are arranged singly or in groups, usually in leaf axils, the sepals joined at the base with five teeth, the petals usually yellowish with reddish markings and the fruit a pod.

<i>Daviesia divaricata</i> Species of legume

Daviesia divaricata, commonly known as marno, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a low, spreading or erect and bushy shrub with phyllodes reduced to small, triangular scales, and orange and maroon flowers.

<i>Daviesia hakeoides</i> Species of legume

Daviesia hakeoides is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub with many tangled stems, scattered sharply-pointed phyllodes and yellow or orange and dark red flowers.

<i>Daviesia angulata</i> Species of flowering plant

Daviesia angulata is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, spreading shrub with prickly, flattened phyllodes, and yellow flowers with red markings.

<i>Daviesia bursarioides</i> Species of flowering plant

Daviesia bursarioides, commonly known as Three Springs Daviesia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to a restricted part of the south-west of Western Australia. It is a straggling shrub with widely-spreading, spiny branches, scattered, flattened phyllodes, and yellow, deep pink and maroon flowers.

<i>Daviesia cunderdin</i> Species of flowering plant

Daviesia cunderdin, commonly known as Cunderdin daviesia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to a restricted area in the south-west of Western Australia. It is a compact, densely-branched shrub with scattered, elliptic to egg-shaped phyllodes, and uniformly red flowers.

<i>Daviesia debilior</i> Species of flowering plant

Daviesia debilior is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub with low-lying stems and many erect branchlets, scattered linear to scale-like phyllodes, and yellow, purplish, orange-pink and dark purplish flowers.

<i>Daviesia decurrens</i> Species of flowering plant

Daviesia decurrens, commonly known as prickly bitter-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is spreading, erect, or low-lying shrub with scattered, sharply-pointed, narrow triangular phyllodes, and yellowish pink and velvety red flowers.

<i>Daviesia aphylla</i> Species of flowering plant

Daviesia aphylla is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, bushy shrub with glabrous foliage, up to six sharply-pointed phyllodes on each branchlet, and orange-red and yellow flowers.

<i>Daviesia elongata</i> Species of legume

Daviesia elongata is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a glabrous, spreading or sprawling shrub with narrowly egg-shaped to linear phyllodes and yellow-orange and maroon flowers.

<i>Daviesia euphorbioides</i> Species of flowering plant

Daviesia euphorbioides, commonly known as Wongan cactus, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to a restricted area in the south-west of Western Australia. It is an open, erect to sprawling, cactus-like shrub with thick, fleshy branchlets and phyllodes reduced to scattered, sharply-pointed spines, and bright yellow, reddish-brown and maroon flowers.

<i>Daviesia flexuosa</i> Species of legume

Daviesia flexuosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west coast of Western Australia. It is a glabrous, spreading shrub with zig-zagged branchlets, scattered, sharply-pointed, narrowly triangular phyllodes and yellow and red flowers.

<i>Daviesia implexa</i> Species of flowering plant

Daviesia implexa is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a mound-shaped shrub with many tangled stems, scattered linear phyllodes and yellow or apricot-coloured, reddish-brown and yellowish-green flowers.

<i>Daviesia incrassata</i> Species of flowering plant

Daviesia incrassata is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, mounded to spreading shrub with more or less zigzag branchlets, scattered needle-shaped phyllodes and orange, deep red and pink flowers.

<i>Daviesia intricata</i> Species of flowering plant

Daviesia intricata is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a glabrous shrub with densely tangled branches, sharply-pointed, needle-shaped or flattened phyllodes and apricot-yellow and dark red flowers.

<i>Daviesia longifolia</i> Species of flowering plant

Daviesia longifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, many-stemmed shrub with scattered, erect, cylindrical phyllodes and yellow and red flowers.

<i>Daviesia major</i> Species of flowering plant

Daviesia major is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, many-stemmed shrub with scattered, erect, sharply-pointed, cylindrical phyllodes and orange and red flowers.

<i>Daviesia megacalyx</i> Species of flowering plant

Daviesia megacalyx is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to a restricted part of the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, glabrous shrub with scattered, leathery, elliptic phyllodes and apricot-coloured and deep pink flowers.

Daviesia microcarpa, commonly known as Norseman pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to two small areas of inland Western Australia. It is a sprawling shrub with tangled stems and crowded, needle-shaped, sharply-pointed phyllodes, and orange and pinkish-red flowers.

<i>Daviesia microphylla</i> Species of flowering plant

Daviesia microphylla is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an openly-branched, sprawling shrub with spiny branchlets, crowded, sharply-pointed, egg-shaped phyllodes, and orange, dark red and maroon flowers.

References

  1. ↑ "Daviesia nudiflora". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Crisp, Michael D.; Cayzer, Lindy; Chandler, Gregory T.; Cook, Lyn G. (2017). "A monograph of Daviesia (Mirbelieae, Faboideae, Fabaceae)". Phytotaxa. 300 (1): 94–99. doi: 10.11646/phytotaxa.300.1.1 .
  3. 1 2 3 "Daviesia nudiflora". FloraBase . Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  4. ↑ Barrett, R. & Tay, E.P. (2016) Perth Plants A Field Guide to the Bushland and Coastal Flora of Kings Park and Bold Park (2nd ed.) p.88, CSIRO Publishing, Clayton VIC ISBN   9781486306046
  5. ↑ "Daviesia nudiflora". APNI. Retrieved 27 February 2022.
  6. ↑ Meisner, C.D.F. in Lehmann, J.G.C. (ed.) (1844) Leguminosae. Plantae Preissianae 1(1): 53.
  7. ↑ Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 262. ISBN   9780958034180.
  8. ↑ "Daviesia nudiflora subsp. amplectens". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
  9. 1 2 3 "Daviesia nudiflora subsp. amplectens". FloraBase . Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  10. ↑ "Daviesia nudiflora subsp. drummondii". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
  11. 1 2 3 "Daviesia nudiflora subsp. drummondii". FloraBase . Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  12. ↑ "Daviesia nudiflora subsp. hirtella". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
  13. 1 2 "Daviesia nudiflora subsp. hirtella". FloraBase . Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  14. ↑ "Daviesia nudiflora subsp. nudiflora". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
  15. 1 2 "Daviesia nudiflora subsp. nudiflora". FloraBase . Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  16. ↑ "Conservation codes for Western Australian Flora and Fauna" (PDF). Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
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