Daviesia mimosoides

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Blunt-leaf bitter-pea
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Daviesia mimosoides on Black Mountain
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Genus: Daviesia
Species:
D. mimosoides
Binomial name
Daviesia mimosoides
Synonyms [1]

Daviesia mimosoides, commonly known as blunt-leaf bitter-pea, [2] narrow-leaf bitter pea or leafy bitter-pea, [3] 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.

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Description

Daviesia mimosoides is an open shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 2 m (6 ft 7 in), rarely tree-like to 5 m (16 ft), and has many glabrous branches. The phyllodes are mostly narrowly elliptic, sometimes linear or egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, 15–200 mm (0.59–7.87 in) long and 4–30 mm (0.16–1.18 in) wide. The flowers are usually arranged in one or two racemes of five to ten flowers in leaf axils, on a peduncle 1–5 mm (0.039–0.197 in) long, the rachis 4–12 mm (0.16–0.47 in) long with narrowly oblong bracts at the base. The sepals are 2.5–5 mm (0.098–0.197 in) long and joined at the base, the upper two lobes joined for most of their length and the lower three triangular and 0.3–0.6 mm (0.012–0.024 in) long. The standard petal is broadly elliptic to egg-shaped, orange-yellow with dark brownish-red or maroon markings and a yellow centre and 6–7.5 mm (0.24–0.30 in) long. The wings are 5.0–6.75 mm (0.197–0.266 in) long and dark brownish-red or maroon with yellow tips, and the keel is 4.0–4.5 mm (0.16–0.18 in) long and maroon. Flowering mainly occurs in September and October and the fruit is a flattened, triangular pod 6–10 mm (0.24–0.39 in) long. [2] [4] [5] [6] [7]

Taxonomy

Daviesia mimosoides was first formally described in 1811 by Robert Brown in Aiton's Hortus Kewensis . [8] [9] The specific epithet (mimosoides) means " Mimosa -like". [10]

In 1991, Michael Crisp described two subspecies, and the names are accepted by the Australian Plant Census:

Distribution and habitat

Blunt-leaf bitter-pea grows in the understorey of open forest from south-east Queensland, through eastern New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, to eastern Victoria, at altitudes from sea level to 1,500 m (4,900 ft). Subspecies acris is restricted to exposed rocky peaks from the Brindabella Range in the Australian Capital Territory, through southern New South Wales to eastern Victoria, at altitudes above 1,200 m (3,900 ft). [5] [6] [12] [13] [15] [16]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Daviesia mimosoides". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
  2. 1 2 Jeanes, Jeff A. "Daviesia mimosoides". Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
  3. ↑ Mullins, Effie. "Daviesia mimosoides". Australian National Botanic Gardens. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
  4. ↑ Crisp, Michael D. "Daviesia mimosoides". Royal Botanic Garden Sydney. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
  5. 1 2 Crisp, Michael D.; Cayzer, Lindy; Chandler, Gregory T.; Cook, Lyn G. (2017). "A monograph of Daviesia (Mirbelieae, Faboideae, Fabaceae)". Phytotaxa. 300 (1): 113–117. doi: 10.11646/phytotaxa.300.1.1 .
  6. 1 2 Wood, Betty. "Daviesia mimosoides". Lucid Keys. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
  7. ↑ Robinson, Les (1991). Field guide to the native plants of Sydney. Kenthurst, NSW: Kangaroo Press. p. 76. ISBN   0864171927.
  8. ↑ "Daviesia mimosoides". APNI. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
  9. ↑ Aiton, William (1811). Hortus Kewensis. Vol. 3 (Second ed.). London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. p. 20. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
  10. ↑ Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 253. ISBN   9780958034180.
  11. ↑ "Daviesia mimosoides subsp. acris". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
  12. 1 2 "Daviesia mimosoides subsp. acris". Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
  13. 1 2 Jeanes, Jeff A. "Daviesia mimosoides subsp. acris". Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
  14. ↑ "Daviesia mimosoides subsp. mimosoides". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
  15. 1 2 "Daviesia mimosoides subsp. mimosoides". Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
  16. 1 2 Jeanes, Jeff A. "Daviesia mimosoides subsp. mimosoides". Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
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