| Daviesia audax | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Genus: | Daviesia |
| Species: | D. audax |
| Binomial name | |
| Daviesia audax | |
Daviesia audax is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with scattered, erect, thick, rigid, sharply pointed phyllodes, and orange flowers with reddish-brown markings.
Daviesia audax is an erect, glabrous shrub that typically grows up to 2 m (6 ft 7 in) with erect, angular branchlets. Its leaves are reduced to scattered, erect, thick, rigid, narrowly elliptic to narrowly egg-shaped phyllodes, mostly 25–65 mm (0.98–2.56 in) long and about 5–10 mm (0.20–0.39 in) wide. The flowers are arranged in groups of up to three in leaf axils, each flower on a pedicel 2–4 mm (0.079–0.157 in) long with a cluster of bracts about 1 mm (0.039 in) long at the base. The sepals are 4.0–4.5 mm (0.16–0.18 in) long, the two upper joined in a broad "lip" and the lower three smaller and triangular. The petals are orange with reddish-brown markings, standard petal 5–7 mm (0.20–0.28 in) long and 5.5–8 mm (0.22–0.31 in) wide, the wings 5–6 mm (0.20–0.24 in) long and the keel 5–6 mm (0.20–0.24 in) long. Flowering occurs from August to October and the fruit is a flattened triangular pod 18–25 mm (0.71–0.98 in) long. [2] [3]
Daviesia audax was first formally described in 1995 by Michael Crisp in Australian Systematic Botany from specimens collected near Harrismith in 1979. [3] [4] The specific epithet (audax) means "bold", referring to sharply-pointed phyllodes. [5]
This species of pea grows in heathland with tall Grevillea species and is found in a narrow band between Harrismith and Lake King in the Avon Wheatbelt and Mallee biogeographic regions in the south-west of Western Australia. [2] [3]
Daviesia audax is classified as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions. [2]
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.
Daviesia latifolia, commonly known as hop bitter-pea, is a shrub in the family Fabaceae. The genus Daviesia is endemic to Australia and the near off shore Islands. Daviesia latifolia is widespread in the Eastern states of Australia. The species was first formally described by botanist Robert Brown, his description published in Hortus Kewensis in 1811.
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.
Dillwynia juniperina, commonly known as prickly parrotpea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is an erect, spreading shrub with rigid, linear, sharply-pointed leaves and yellow flowers with red markings.
Pultenaea elachista is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to southern Australia. It is an erect, spindly shrub with hairy foliage, oblong to egg-shaped leaves with a pointed tip, and yellow flowers with red or orange markings.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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 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.
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.