Dillwynia uncinata

Last updated

Silky parrot-pea
Dillwynia uncinata.jpg
Dillwynia uncinata in Ferries McDonald Conservation Park
Scientific classification Red Pencil Icon.png
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Genus: Dillwynia
Species:
D. uncinata
Binomial name
Dillwynia uncinata
Synonyms [1]
  • Dillwynia patula(F.Muell. ex D.Dietr.) F.Muell.
  • Eutaxia patulaF.Muell. ex D.Dietr.
  • Eutaxia sparsifoliaF.Muell.
  • Eutaxia sparsifoliaF.Muell. isonym
  • Eutaxia uncinataTurcz.

Dillwynia uncinata, commonly known as silky parrot-pea, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to southern Australia. It is an erect, spreading shrub with cylindrical leaves and yellow flowers with a red centre.

Contents

Description

Dillwynia uncinata is an erect, spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of about 50 cm (20 in) and has silky-hairy upper stems. The leaves are cylindrical, mostly 3–7 mm (0.12–0.28 in) long, about 0.5 mm (0.020 in) wide on a petiole up to 1 mm (0.039 in) long. The flowers are arranged in more or less sessile groups of two to five, each flower on a pedicel 1–2 mm (0.039–0.079 in) long. The sepals are hairy, 4–5 mm (0.16–0.20 in) long and the standard petal is 8–10 mm (0.31–0.39 in) long and yellow with a red centre. The wings are slightly shorter and the keel shortest and reddish. Flowering occurs from September to November. [2] [3] [4]

Taxonomy and naming

This species was first formally described in 1853 by Nikolai Turczaninow in Bulletin de la Société impériale des naturalistes de Moscou [5] and was given the name Eutaxia uncinata. [6] In 1916, John McConnell Black changed the name to Dillwynia uncinata in the Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia . [7] [8] The specific epithet (uncinata) means "hooked" or "barbed", referring to the leaves. [9]

Distribution

This dillwynia grows in heath, on dunes and in swampy areas in the south-west of Western Australia, in south-eastern South Australia and in the north-west of Victoria. [2] [3] [4]

Conservation status

Dillwynia uncinata is classified as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife. [2]

Related Research Articles

<i>Melaleuca ciliosa</i> Species of shrub

Melaleuca ciliosa is a small shrub in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It has bright or pale yellow flowers, an unusual calyx and leaves that are slightly hairy, especially around the edges.

<i>Hemiphora uncinata</i> Species of flowering plant

Hemiphora uncinata is a flowering plant in the mint family Lamiaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, spreading shrub with its branches densely covered with white, woolly hairs. Its leaves are rough and wrinkled and the flowers are tube-shaped with deep pink petals with wavy edges.

Dillwynia divaricata is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, spindly shrub with cylindrical, grooved leaves and yellow flowers with brownish markings.

Pultenaea adunca is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is an erect, spindly shrub with hairy, needle-shaped leaves and yellow and red flowers.

Pultenaea brachyphylla is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is an erect, spindly shrub with cylindrical, grooved leaves and yellow, orange and brown flowers.

<i>Hibbertia mucronata</i> Species of flowering plant

Hibbertia mucronata is a species of flowering plant in the family Dilleniaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with hairy branches, crowded, thick, tapering linear leaves ending in a sharp point, and golden yellow flowers with five stamens fused at their bases, all on one side of two densely hairy carpels.

Pultenaea purpurea is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is a small prostrate shrub with cylindrical leaves and yellow-orange and red flowers.

Pultenaea rotundifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is a straggling, spreading shrub with flat, glabrous leaves, and yellow flowers with red markings.

Pultenaea spinulosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is a shrub with flat, hairy leaves, and uniformly yellow flowers.

<i>Pultenaea verruculosa</i> Species of flowering plant

Pultenaea verruculosa 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 flat, hairy leaves, and yellow-orange and red, pea-like flowers.

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

Daviesia anceps is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is a dense, erect or low-lying shrub with its branchlets reduced to flattened cladodes, and yellow flowers with red markings.

Hibbertia verrucosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Dilleniaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub with scattered, densely hairy, narrowly rectangular leaves and yellow flowers usually with ten stamens fused at the bases, all on one side of two densely softly-hairy carpels.

<i>Lasiopetalum rosmarinifolium</i> Species of plant

Lasiopetalum rosmarinifolium is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect or spreading shrub with hairy stems and leaves, linear leaves and white flowers.

<i>Olearia passerinoides</i> Species of plant

Olearia passerinoides, commonly known as slender daisy bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to southern continental Australia. It is a slender, sticky shrub with linear leaves, and white or pale mauve and mauve or pink daisy flowers.

<i>Spyridium microcephalum</i> Species of shrub

Spyridium microcephalum is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a spreading or erect shrub with linear leaves and heads of woolly-hairy flowers.

Spyridium villosum is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a small shrub with shaggy-hairy branchlets, linear to oblong leaves and dense heads of hairy flowers with broad brown bracts at the base.

<i>Thomasia rugosa</i>

Thomasia rugosa, commonly known as wrinkled leaf thomasia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It has wrinkled, lance-shaped to egg-shaped leaves with wavy edges, and pink to mauve flowers.

Androcalva cuneata is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a low, spreading, densely hairy shrub that sometimes forms suckers and has wedge-shaped leaves and clusters of 5 to 15 pink flowers.

<i>Commersonia densiflora</i> Species of plant

Commersonia densiflora is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a dense, low-growing shrub with pinnate, elliptic to narrowly oblong, prominently veined leaves, and white flowers in clusters of 100 or more.

Commersonia rotundifolia, commonly known as round-leaved rulingia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an upright, openly-branched shrub with elliptic to round leaves with wavy edges, and white flowers in clusters of 3 to 10.

References

  1. 1 2 "Dillwynia uncinata". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Dillwynia uncinata". FloraBase . Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  3. 1 2 Jeanes, Jeff A. "Dillwynia uncinata". Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
  4. 1 2 "Dillwynia uncinata". State Herbarium of South Australia. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
  5. Turczaninow, Nikolai (1853). "Papilionaceae. Podalyrieae et Loteae Australasicae Non-Nullae, Hucusque non Descriptae". Bulletin de la Société impériale des naturalistes de Moscou. 26 (1): 269–270. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
  6. "Eutaxia uncinata". APNI. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
  7. "Dillwynia uncinata". Australian Plant Name Index. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
  8. Black, John M. (1916). "Additions to the Flora of South Australia. No 9". Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia. 40: 65. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
  9. Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 331. ISBN   9780958034180.