Daviesia arthropoda

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

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.

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Description

Daviesia arthropoda is a glabrous shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.5–1 m (1 ft 8 in – 3 ft 3 in) and has branches spreading at right-angles to the main stem. The phyllodes are scattered along the branchlets and are sharply pointed, narrowly egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, mostly 20–40 mm (0.79–1.57 in) long and 3–5 mm (0.12–0.20 in) wide. The flowers are arranged singly or in pairs in axils on a peduncle 4–8 mm (0.16–0.31 in) long with bracts about 1 mm (0.039 in) long, each flower on a pedicel 3–8 mm (0.12–0.31 in) long. The five sepals are 3.0–3.5 mm (0.12–0.14 in) long and joined at the base, the lobes triangular and more or less equal in length. The standard petal is yellow with a red centre and about 4 mm (0.16 in) long, the wings yellow with a red base and about 4.5 mm (0.18 in) long and the keel sac-like, yellow and about 4 mm (0.16 in) long. Flowering occurs from April to August and the fruit is a flattened, triangular pod 7–8 mm (0.28–0.31 in) long. [2] [3] [4] [5]

Taxonomy and naming

Daviesia arthropoda was first formally described in 1874 by Ferdinand von Mueller in Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae from specimens collected in Kata Tjuta by Ernest Giles. [6] [7] The specific epithet (arthropoda) means "jointed foot", referring to the peduncles. [8]

Distribution

This species of pea grows on sand dunes with species of spinifex, such as Triodia basedowii , and Acacia species and is widespread and scattered in Central Australia from the Little Sandy Desert in Western Australia, through the Northern Territory and South Australia to western Queensland. [2] [3] [4] [5]

Conservation status

This daviesia is classified as "Priority Three" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, [2] meaning that it is poorly known and known from only a few locations but is not under imminent threat [9] but as of "least concern" in the Northern Territory and Queensland. [4] [10]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Daviesia discolor is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Queensland. It is a glabrous, multi-stemmed shrub with linear, more or less sickle-shaped phyllodes, and yellow and dark red flowers.

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

Daviesia elliptica, commonly known as wild hops, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an open, usually multi-stemmed shrub with scattered, narrowly elliptic to egg-shaped phyllodes, and yellow and red to maroon 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 emarginata</i> Species of flowering plant

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

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

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Daviesia pachyloma 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 or spreading shrub with zigzagging branches, sharply-pointed, narrowly elliptic to linear phyllodes, and yellow and red flowers.

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

Daviesia pachyphylla, commonly known a ouch bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is usually a slender shrub with often arching branchlets, crowded, sharply-pointed, narrowly conical phyllodes, and yellow to orange and dark reddish-brown flowers.

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

Daviesia rubiginosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to inland areas of south-western Western Australia. It is a broom-like, glabrous to glaucous shrub with scattered, linear to cylindrical phyllodes, and orange-yellow and red flowers.

References

  1. ↑ "Daviesia arthropoda". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 "Daviesia arthropoda". FloraBase . Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  3. 1 2 Crisp, Michael D.; Cayzer, Lindy; Chandler, Gregory T.; Cook, Lyn G. (2017). "A monograph of Daviesia (Mirbelieae, Faboideae, Fabaceae)". Phytotaxa. 300 (1): 25–27. doi: 10.11646/phytotaxa.300.1.1 .
  4. 1 2 3 "Daviesia arthropoda". Northern Territory Government. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
  5. 1 2 "Daviesia arthropoda". State Herbarium of South Australia. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
  6. ↑ "Daviesia arthropoda". APNI. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
  7. ↑ von Mueller, Ferdinand (1860). Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae. Vol. 2. Melbourne: Victorian Government Printer. p. 106. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
  8. ↑ Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 138. ISBN   9780958034180.
  9. ↑ "Conservation codes for Western Australian Flora and Fauna" (PDF). Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife. Retrieved 15 October 2021.
  10. ↑ "Species profile - Daviesia arthropoda". Queensland Government Department of Environment and Science. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
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