Daviesia brevifolia | |
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At Anglesea Heath, Victoria | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Fabales |
Family: | Fabaceae |
Subfamily: | Faboideae |
Genus: | Daviesia |
Species: | D. brevifolia |
Binomial name | |
Daviesia brevifolia | |
Synonyms [1] | |
Daviesia brevifoliaLindl. var. brevifolia |
Daviesia brevifolia, commonly known as leafless bitter-pea, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the southern continental Australia. It is a broom-like shrub with short, cylindrical phyllodes and apricot to reddish-brown flowers.
Daviesia brevifolia is an erect, rigid, broom-like shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 1 m (3 ft 3 in) and has ascending, glabrous branchlets. Its leaves are reduced to cylindrical, sharply-pointed phyllodes 2–8 mm (0.079–0.315 in) long and 1.0–1.5 mm (0.039–0.059 in) wide at the base. The flowers are arranged in groups of three or four in leaf axils on a peduncle 1.5–2 mm (0.059–0.079 in) long with clusters of bracts about 0.5 mm (0.020 in) long at the base, each flower on a pedicel 2.0–3.5 mm (0.079–0.138 in) long. The sepals are 3–4 mm (0.12–0.16 in) long, the two upper lobes fused and the lower three triangular and about 0.5 mm (0.020 in) long. The petals are apricot to reddish-brown, the standard petal 6.5–8 mm (0.26–0.31 in) long, the wings 7.0–7.5 mm (0.28–0.30 in) long, and the keel 7.5–8.0 mm (0.30–0.31 in) long. Flowering occurs from August to October and the fruit is an inflated triangular pod 9–15 mm (0.35–0.59 in) long. [2] [3] [4]
Daviesia brevifolia was first formally in 1838 described by John Lindley in Thomas Mitchell's journal, Three Expeditions into the interior of Eastern Australia. [5] [6] The specific epithet (brevifolia) means "short-leaved". [7]
Leafless bitter-pea grows in forest and woodland and heath in western Victoria and the south-east of South Australia. [2] [3] [4]
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 leptophylla, commonly known as narrow-leaf bitter-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is a broom-like, multi-stemmed shrub with dull, yellowish-green, linear phyllodes and bright yellow flowers with maroon 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 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 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 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 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.
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.
Daviesia filipes is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Queensland. It is a shrub with hairy foliage, crowded, narrowly oblong phyllodes, and yellow and maroon flowers.
Daviesia flava is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Queensland. It is a glabrous shrub with linear or narrowly egg-shaped phyllodes, and uniformly yellow flowers.
Daviesia genistifolia, commonly known as broom bitter-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is a glabrous, low to open shrub with scattered, sharply-pointed, cylindrical phyllodes and yellow or orange-yellow, deep red and maroon flowers.
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.
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.
Daviesia mollis is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a small shrub with softly-hairy foliage, scattered elliptic phyllodes, and yellow and reddish flowers.
Daviesia pectinata, commonly known as thorny bitter-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is a dense, rigid shrub with erect, flattened branchlets, crowded, flattened, triangular phyllodes, and yellow to orange and reddish flowers.
Daviesia polyphylla is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a bushy, spreading, glabrous shrub with narrowly egg-shaped or elliptic, sharply-pointed phyllodes and yellow and dark red flowers.
Daviesia scoparia is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a broom-like, glabrous, leafless shrub with yellow, dark reddish-brown and maroon flowers.
Daviesia villifera is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a hairy shrub with arching branches, sharply-pointed egg-shaped to heart-shaped phyllodes, and yellow and dark red flowers.