Daviesia devito

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

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.

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Description

Daviesia devito is a dense shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.3–1 m (1 ft 0 in – 3 ft 3 in) and has glabrous foliage. Its leaves are reduced to sharply-pointed, cylindrical phyllodes 5–30 mm (0.20–1.18 in) long and 1.0–1.75 mm (0.039–0.069 in) wide at the base. The flowers are arranged in one or two groups of two to five in leaf axils on a peduncle up to 1 mm (0.039 in) long, the rachis 2–7 mm (0.079–0.276 in) long, each flower on a pedicel up to about 1 mm (0.039 in) long with a down-curved bract at the base. The sepals are about 2 mm (0.079 in) long and joined at the base. The standard is yellow to red with a yellowish green centre, 5–6 mm (0.20–0.24 in) long and about 5 mm (0.20 in) wide, the wings orange-brown, 4.0–4.5 mm (0.16–0.18 in) long and the keel deep maroon and about 4 mm (0.16 in) long. Flowering occurs in September and October and the fruit is a broadly egg-shaped to triangular pod 5–7 mm (0.20–0.28 in) long. [2] [3]

Taxonomy and naming

Daviesia devito is in a genus commonly known as bitter-peas. [4] In 1982, Michael Crisp described Daviesia benthamii subsp. humilis in the Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens , [5] [6] but in 2017 Crisp and Lyn G. Cook, in an article published in Phytotaxa , divided that subspecies into two new species, Daviesia schwarzenegger and D. devito. [2] [7] The specific epithets (devito and schwarzenegger) are references to the main actors in the Universal Studios 1988 film Twins , D. devito being the less vigorous of the two. [2] [8]

Distribution and habitat

Daviesia devito usually grows in mallee, sometimes woodland or heathland and is found in scattered populations from the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia to western Victoria and to near Condobolin in New South Wales. [2] [3]

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

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

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

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

Daviesia pubigera is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to New South Wales. It is an open to spreading shrub with sharply-pointed, narrowly egg-shaped phyllodes, and yellow and red flowers.

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

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

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References

  1. "Daviesia devito". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Crisp, Michael D.; Cayzer, Lindy; Chandler, Gregory T.; Cook, Lyn G. (2017). "A monograph of Daviesia (Mirbelieae, Faboideae, Fabaceae)". Phytotaxa. 300 (1): 182–183. doi: 10.11646/phytotaxa.300.1.1 .
  3. 1 2 Klazenga, Niels; Stajsic, Val. "Deviesia devito". Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
  4. Crisp, Michael D. "Daviesia". Royal Botanic Garden Sydney. Retrieved 5 December 2021.
  5. "Daviesia benthamii subsp. humilis". APNI. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
  6. Crisp, Michael (1982). "Notes on Daviesia and Pultenaea (Fabaceae) in South Australia" (PDF). Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens. 6 (1): 60. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
  7. "Daviesia devito". APNI. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
  8. Evans, Jake (28 April 2017). "Twin plants named after Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito following DNA discovery". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 4 December 2021.