Sharp bitter-pea | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Fabales |
Family: | Fabaceae |
Subfamily: | Faboideae |
Genus: | Daviesia |
Species: | D. acicularis |
Binomial name | |
Daviesia acicularis | |
Synonyms [1] | |
Daviesia pungens Benth. |
Daviesia acicularis, commonly known as sharp bitter-pea, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a small, wiry shrub with tapering, linear phyllodes, and single yellow to orange and dark red flowers.
Daviesia acicularis is a wiry shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 1 m (3 ft 3 in) and has hairy foliage. The phyllodes are tapering linear to narrow elliptic, 10–65 mm (0.39–2.56 in) long and 0.5–10 mm (0.020–0.394 in) wide with the edges curved downwards or rolled under and a prominent mid-vein on the upper surface. The flowers are 5–7 mm (0.20–0.28 in) long and arranged singly on a peduncle 1–2 mm (0.039–0.079 in) long. The sepals are 3.5–4.5 mm (0.14–0.18 in) long and joined at the base. The standard petal is yellow to orange with dark red markings and 5–7 mm (0.20–0.28 in) long and the keel is dark red grading to pink near the base. Flowering occurs from August in the north to October in the south and the fruit is a triangular pod 6–9 mm (0.24–0.35 in) long. [2] [3] [4]
Daviesia acicularis was first formally described in 1805 by James Edward Smith in his book Annals of Botany from specimens collected at Port Jackson. [5] [6]
This species of pea grows in forest and hummock grassland from Tambo and Charleville in central Queensland to Eden and inland as far as Cowra, West Wyalong and Enngonia in New South Wales. [2] [3]
Daviesia horrida, 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 a spreading shrub with rigid, spiny branchlets, narrowly elliptic phyllodes and orange and dark red flowers.
Daviesia ulicifolia, commonly known as gorse bitter-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a rigid, openly-branched shrub with sharply-pointed, narrow elliptic, narrow egg-shaped, rarely egg-shaped phyllodes and usually orange-yellow and dark red flowers.
Daviesia alata is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern New South Wales. It is a prostrate to low-lying shrub with winged branchlets that are triangular in cross-section, phyllodes reduced to scales, and orange, red, yellow and maroon flowers.
Daviesia mimosoides, commonly known as blunt-leaf bitter-pea, narrow-leaf bitter pea or leafy bitter-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern continental Australia. It is an open shrub with tapering, linear, elliptic or egg-shaped phyllodes, and groups of orange-yellow and dark brownish-red to maroon flowers.
Daviesia wyattiana, commonly known as long-leaf bitter-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a sparse, erect shrub with long, linear phyllodes, and groups of four to seven yellow flowers with red or purplish markings.
Daviesia umbellulata is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a slender shrub with egg-shaped or linear phyllodes, and groups of up to six yellow to orange flowers with maroon markings.
Daviesia arborea, commonly known as golden pea or bitterleaf pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a shrub or small tree with weeping branches, linear phyllodes and yellow flowers with red markings.
Daviesia argillacea 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 erect narrow egg-shaped phyllodes with the narrower end towards the base, and yellow to orange and maroon flowers.
Daviesia articulata is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a rigid, low-lying or erect shrub with scattered, tapering, cylindrical and sharply pointed phyllodes, and yellow and red flowers.
Daviesia asperula is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to South Australia. It is a compact or spreading shrub with often crowded, flattened, tapering or curved, sharply pointed phyllodes, and orange-yellow and red flowers.
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.
Daviesia devito is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is a dense, prickly shrub with sharply-pointed phyllodes and yellow, red, greenish and maroon flowers. It was previously known as Daviesia benthamii subsp. humilis until that subspecies was split into two new species.
Daviesia dilatata is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, open, glabrous shrub with scattered, often sickle-shaped phyllodes, and orange, red, yellow and dark crimson flowers.
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.
Daviesia laevis is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the Grampians in Victoria, Australia. It is an open, erect shrub with arching branchlets, scattered narrow elliptic to linear phyllodes and orange-yellow and brownish-red 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.
Daviesia newbeyi is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a bushy, broom-like, more or less glabrous shrub with ridged stems, narrowly oblong to linear phyllodes, and orange flowers with dark red markings.
Daviesia smithiorum is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, glabrous, spindly shrub with scattered tapering, needle-shaped phyllodes and yellow-orange and red flowers.
Daviesia speciosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a low, erect, spindly, glabrous shrub with needle-shaped phyllodes almost indistinguishable from the branchlets, and red flowers.
Daviesia squarrosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a slender shrub with crowded, heart-shaped phyllodes with a long-tapering tip, and yellow and red flowers.