Narrow-leaf bitter-pea | |
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Daviesia leptophylla in Enfield State Park | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Fabales |
Family: | Fabaceae |
Subfamily: | Faboideae |
Genus: | Daviesia |
Species: | D. leptophylla |
Binomial name | |
Daviesia leptophylla | |
Synonyms [1] | |
Daviesia leptophylla, commonly known as narrow-leaf bitter-pea, [2] 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 leptophylla is a glabrous, broom-like, multi-stemmed shrub that typically grows to a height of up to about 2 m (6 ft 7 in) high or rarely, tree-like to 5 m (16 ft) wide. The phyllodes are scattered along the branchlets, linear, yellowish-green, up to 90 mm (3.5 in) long and 6 mm (0.24 in) wide. The flowers are borne in leaf axils usually on two racemes of five to ten flowers, the racemes on peduncles 1.3–5.0 mm (0.051–0.197 in) long, the rachis 1.5–6.0 mm (0.059–0.236 in) long, each flower on a pedicel 1.0–2.5 mm (0.039–0.098 in) long. The sepals are 3.4–4.7 mm (0.13–0.19 in) long and joined at the base, the upper two joined for most of their length and the lower three triangular and 0.50–0.75 mm (0.020–0.030 in) long. The standard petal is broadly elliptic with a notched centre, 6.0–6.5 mm (0.24–0.26 in) long and bright yellow with a maroon base and intensely yellow centre, the wings 5.0–6.0 mm (0.20–0.24 in) long and dark red with yellow edges, and the keel 4.0–4.5 mm (0.16–0.18 in) long and dark red. Flowering occurs from August to December and the fruit is flattened triangular pod 5–10 mm (0.20–0.39 in) long. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
Daviesia leptophylla was first formally described in 1832 by George Don in his book A General History of Dichlamydeous Plants from an unpublished manuscript by Allan Cunningham. [7] [8] The specific epithet (leptophylla) means "slender-leaved". [9]
Narrow-leaf bitter-pea grows in shrubland or forest, mostly on the slopes and tablelands at altitudes up to 1,400 m (4,600 ft), from Wellington in New South Wales through the Australian Capital Territory and central Victoria to the south-east of South Australia. [2] [3] [4] [5]
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 latifolia, commonly known as hop bitter-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a slender, erect, spreading shrub with elliptic, egg-shaped or lance-shaped phyllodes and orange-yellow and maroon flowers in long racemes.
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.
Daviesia buxifolia, commonly known as box-leaf bitter-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is an open shrub with egg-shaped to round phyllodes and yellow or yellowish-orange and maroon-brown flowers.
Daviesia mimosoides, commonly known as blunt-leaf bitter-pea, narrow-leaf bitter pea or leafy bitter-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern continental Australia. It is an open shrub with tapering, linear, elliptic or egg-shaped phyllodes, and groups of orange-yellow and dark brownish-red to maroon flowers.
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 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.
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 oppositifolia, commonly known as rattle-pea, 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 many stems, egg-shaped phyllodes with the narrower end towards the base, and yellow flowers with maroon markings.
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 pedunculata is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-western Western Australia. It is a spreading or sprawling to erect shrub with erect, egg-shaped to elliptic phyllodes, and yellow and maroon flowers.
Daviesia physodes is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to near-coastal areas of south-western Western Australia. It is an open shrub with verically flattened or tapering, sharply-pointed phyllodes, and yellow and pink to red flowers.
Daviesia reclinata is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to northern Australia. It is a prostrate or straggling shrub with scattered linear phyllodes, and yellow flowers.
Daviesia rubiginosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to inland areas of south-western Western Australia. It is a broom-like, glabrous to glaucous shrub with scattered, linear to cylindrical phyllodes, and orange-yellow and 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 sejugata is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to southern Australia. It is a straggling, mostly glabrous shrub with spiny, ridged branchlets, scattered, sharply-pointed, narrowly elliptic phyllodes, and yellow, maroon, orange and dark purple flowers.