Daviesia argillacea

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Daviesia argillacea
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In the Fitzgerald River National Park
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Genus: Daviesia
Species:
D. argillacea
Binomial name
Daviesia argillacea
Synonyms [1]
  • Daviesia obtusifolia var. parvifolia E.Pritz.
  • Daviesia phyllodinea var. parvifolia S.Moore

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.

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Description

Daviesia argillacea is an erect, bushy, mostly glabrous shrub that typically grows to a height of 2 m (6 ft 7 in) or higher. Its leaves are reduced to erect, usually narrow egg-shaped phyllodes with the narrower end towards the base, 7–22 mm (0.28–0.87 in) wide and 3–6 mm (0.12–0.24 in) wide. The flowers are arranged singly or in pairs in leaf axils on a peduncle 0.25–2 mm (0.0098–0.0787 in) long, each flower on a pedicel 1.0–2.5 mm (0.039–0.098 in) long with spatula-shaped bracts at the base. The sepals are 3.5–4.0 mm (0.14–0.16 in) long, the two upper joined in a broad "lip" and the lower three smaller and triangular. The standard petal is orange or orange-yellow with a dull red or maroon base and 4.5–5.0 mm (0.18–0.20 in) long, the wings orange with a maroon tinge and about 4.5 mm (0.18 in) long and the keel maroon and about 4 mm (0.16 in) long. Flowering occurs from July to October and the fruit is a flattened triangular pod 5–7 mm (0.20–0.28 in) long. [2] [3]

Taxonomy and naming

Daviesia argillacea was first formally described in 1995 by Michael Crisp in Australian Systematic Botany from specimens he collected south of Norseman in 1979. [3] [4] The specific epithet (argillacea) means "resembling white clay", referring to the soil in which this species grows. [5]

Distribution and habitat

This species of pea mainly grows in woodland or mallee shrubland in the area between Southern Cross, the Pallinup River, Cape Arid National Park and Lake Lefroy in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Esperance Plains and Mallee biogeographic regions in the south-west of Western Australia. [2] [3]

Conservation status

Daviesia apiculata is classified as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions. [2]

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

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

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<i>Acacia pycnocephala</i> Species of legume

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<i>Pultenaea largiflorens</i> Species of flowering plant

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

Daviesia abnormis is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, hairy shrub with sharply-pointed, narrow elliptic to narrow egg-shaped phyllodes with the narrower end towards the base, and yellow flowers with faint red markings.

<i>Daviesia nova-anglica</i> Species of flowering plant

Daviesia nova-anglica is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to northern New South Wales. It is an erect shrub with arching branches, sharply-pointed, egg-shaped to narrow egg-shaped phyllodes, and yellow flowers with red markings.

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

Daviesia acicularis, commonly known as sharp bitter-pea, 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Daviesia alternifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a dense, spreading shrub with scattered, egg-shaped phyllodes with the narrower end towards the base, and orange and red flowers with a greenish-yellow centre.

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

Daviesia anceps is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is a dense, erect or low-lying shrub with its branchlets reduced to flattened cladodes, and yellow flowers with red markings.

<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 apiculata</i> Species of flowering plant

Daviesia apiculata 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 scattered, erect phyllodes with a point on the end, and yellow flowers with a red tinge.

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

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.

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

Daviesia arenaria, commonly known as sandhill bitter-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is usually a hummock-forming shrub with many short, spiny branchlets and heart-shaped to elliptic phyllodes with a sharp point on the end, and orange-pink, maroon and yellow flowers.

Pultenaea indira is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect or low-lying shrub with plate-like or fissured bark near the base, densely hairy stems above, linear to lance-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and yellow, red and maroon flowers.

Daviesia arthropoda is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Central Australia. It is a glabrous shrub with widely spreading branches, sharply-pointed, narrowly egg-shaped phyllodes with the narrower end towards the base, and yellow flowers with faint red markings.

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

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.

References

  1. 1 2 "Daviesia argillacea". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 13 October 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 "Daviesia argillacea". FloraBase . Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
  3. 1 2 3 Crisp, Michael D.; Cayzer, Lindy; Chandler, Gregory T.; Cook, Lyn G. (2017). "A monograph of Daviesia (Mirbelieae, Faboideae, Fabaceae)". Phytotaxa. 300 (1): 155–157. doi: 10.11646/phytotaxa.300.1.1 .
  4. "Daviesia argillacea". APNI. Retrieved 13 October 2021.
  5. Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. pp. 136–137. ISBN   9780958034180.