| Daviesia eremaea | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Faboideae |
| Genus: | Daviesia |
| Species: | D. eremaea |
| Binomial name | |
| Daviesia eremaea | |
Daviesia eremaea is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to central Australia. It is an erect, glabrous, multi-stemmed shrub with needle-like, more or less sharply-pointed phyllodes, and yellow and red flowers.
Daviesia eremaea is an erect, glabrous, multi-stemmed shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.9–2 m (2 ft 11 in–6 ft 7 in). Its leaves are reduced to scattered, erect, needle-shaped, more or less sharply-pointed phyllodes 40–120 mm (1.6–4.7 in) long and about 1 mm (0.039 in) wide. The flowers are arranged in racemes of two to five on a peduncle 1–2 mm (0.039–0.079 in) long, the rachis 2–7 mm (0.079–0.276 in) long, each flower on a thin pedicel 4–8 mm (0.16–0.31 in) long with spatula-shaped bracts about 1 mm (0.039 in) long at the base. The sepals are 3.5–4.5 mm (0.14–0.18 in) long forming a bell shaped base with lobes about 0.5 mm (0.020 in) long. The standard petal is elliptic, about 6 mm (0.24 in) long, 7 mm (0.28 in) wide and yellow with a red base, the wings about 5 mm (0.20 in) long and red, and the keel about 4.5 mm (0.18 in) long and red. Flowering occurs from August to October and the fruit is a triangular pod 7–8 mm (0.28–0.31 in) long. [2] [3] [4]
Daviesia eremaea was first formally described in 1980 by Michael Crisp in the Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens . [4] [5] The specific epithet (eremaea) refers to the desert habitat of this species. [4]
Daviesia eremaea grows on sand dunes in grassland, sometimes on mountain slopes in mallee from near Alice Springs in the Northern Territory, west to the Pilbara and Great Victoria Desert regions of Western Australia and south to near the border with South Australia. [2] [3] [4]
This species of pea is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions. [2]
Daviesia brevifolia, commonly known as leafless bitter-pea, 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 divaricata, commonly known as marno, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a low, spreading or erect and bushy shrub with phyllodes reduced to small, triangular scales, and orange and maroon 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 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 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 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.
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 campephylla is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to a restricted part of Western Australia. It is a low, spreading shrub with ascending branches, phyllodes shaped like looping caterpillars, and yellow flowers with faint red markings.
Daviesia crassa is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a compact, dense, glabrous shrub with densely crowded, thick, club-shaped phyllodes, and uniformly yellow flowers.
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 devito is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae is 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.
Daviesia schwarzenegger is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is a dense, mounded shrub with sharply-pointed phyllodes and yellow and dark red flowers, and resembles Daviesia devito apart from its more robust growth habit and the surface of its dried foliage.
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.
Daviesia dilatata 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.
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.
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.
Daviesia emarginata is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, mostly glabrous shrub with scattered egg-shaped phyllodes with the narrower end towards the base and with a notch at the tip, and yellow and pink flowers.
Daviesia epiphyllum, commonly known as staghorn bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a rigid, erect, spreading, glabrous shrub with flattened, staghorn-shaped phylloclades with sharply-pointed lobes, and yellowish-red flowers.