Daviesia glossosema

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Maroon-flowered daviesia
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Daviesia glossosema in the Stirling Range
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Genus: Daviesia
Species:
D. glossosema
Binomial name
Daviesia glossosema

Daviesia glossosema, commonly known as maroon-flowered daviesia, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to a restricted area of south-western Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with tangled, spreading branches, cylindrical, sharply-pointed phyllodes, and unusually-shaped maroon flowers.

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Description

Daviesia glossosema is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.5–1 m (1 ft 8 in–3 ft 3 in) and has spreading, tangled branches with glaucous foliage. Its leaves are reduced to scattered, erect, needle-shaped, sharply-pointed phyllodes 8–40 mm (0.31–1.57 in) long and about 1 mm (0.039 in) wide. The flowers are arranged in racemes of two to five on a peduncle 4–7 mm (0.16–0.28 in) long, the rachis 1–3 mm (0.039–0.118 in) long, each flower on a pedicel 3–5 mm (0.12–0.20 in) long with bracts about 1 mm (0.039 in) long at the base. The sepals are about 4 mm (0.16 in) long and joined at the base with minute teeth. The petals are maroon, the standard egg-shaped, 10.0–10.5 mm (0.39–0.41 in) long and curved backwards, the wings about 11.5–13.5 mm (0.45–0.53 in) long and curved inwards exposing the keel and stamens, and the keel is about 8 mm (0.31 in) long. Flowering occurs from September to November and the fruit is an inflated triangular pod 14–20 mm (0.55–0.79 in) long. [2] [3] [4] [5]

Taxonomy and naming

Daviesia glossosema was first formally described in 1995 by Michael Crisp in Australian Systematic Botany . [6] The specific epithet (glossosema) is derived from words meaning "tongue" and "standard", referring to the unusual shape of that petal. [2]

Distribution and habitat

Maroon-flowered daviesia grows in heath in a small area of the Stirling Range in the south-west of Western Australia. [2] [3] [4]

Conservation status

Daviesia glossosema is listed as "Threatened Flora (Declared Rare Flora — Extant)" by the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions and an Interim Recovery Plan has been prepared. [2] [3]

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References

  1. ↑ "Daviesia glossosema". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Phillimore, Robyn; Brown, Andrew. "Maroon-flowered daviesia (Daviesia glossosema) interim recovery plan 2001–2004" (PDF). Government of Western Australia Department of Conservation and Land Management. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
  3. 1 2 3 "Daviesia glossosema". FloraBase . Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  4. 1 2 Crisp, Michael D.; Cayzer, Lindy; Chandler, Gregory T.; Cook, Lyn G. (2017). "A monograph of Daviesia (Mirbelieae, Faboideae, Fabaceae)". Phytotaxa. 300 (1): 153–154. doi: 10.11646/phytotaxa.300.1.1 .
  5. ↑ Crisp, Michael D. (1980). "Daviesia and Leptosema (Fabaceae) in central Australia: new species and name changes" (PDF). Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens. 2 (3): 249–250. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
  6. ↑ "Daviesia glossosema". APNI. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
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