| Mirbelia viminalis | |
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| In the Kimberley region | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Faboideae |
| Genus: | Mirbelia |
| Species: | M. viminalis |
| Binomial name | |
| Mirbelia viminalis | |
Mirbelia viminalis is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to northern Australia. It is an erect to spreading, spiny, leafless shrub with yellow flowers.
Mirbelia viminalis is an erect to spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.4–2 m (1 ft 4 in – 6 ft 7 in) and has many spine-tipped branches, its leaves reduced to scales. The flowers are similar to those of M. ramulosa except that the bracteoles are close to the base of the sepals. the outer surface of the sepals has hairs pressed against the surface, and the petals are entirely yellow. Flowering occurs in most months and the fruit is a pod 7–8 mm (0.28–0.31 in) long. [2] [3]
This mirbelia was first formally described in 1837 by George Bentham in Commentationes de Leguminosarum Generibus from an unpublished description by Allan Cunningham who gave it the name Jacksonia viminalis. [4] In 1930, Charles Gardner changed the name to Mirbelia viminalis in Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis. [5] The specific epithet (viminalis) means "having long, thin branches". [6]
Mirbelia viminalis grows on rocky outcropes, scree slopes and hills and is widespread in the north of Western Australia, the Northern Territory and northern Queensland. [2] [3]
Mirbelia viminalis is listed as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, [2] and as of "least concern" in the Northern Territory and Queensland. [3] [7]
Mirbelia dilatata, commonly known as holly-leaved mirbelia, 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 prickly leaves and pink, purple or violet flowers.
Gompholobium subulatum is a species of flowering plant in the pea family Fabaceae and is endemic to northern Australia. It is a slender, erect shrub with pinnate leaves with five to eleven leaflets, and uniformly yellow, pea-like flowers.
Mirbelia spinosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a spiny shrub with narrowly linear leaves and yellow, orange and reddish-brown flowers.
Mirbelia balsiformis is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the far west of Western Australia. It is an erect to sprawling shrub with leaves reduced to triangular scales, and yellow to orange and red flowers arranged in racemes on the side of the branchlets.
Mirbelia corallina is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the far west of Western Australia. It is a slender, sprawling sub-shrub with a few narrowly elliptic to narrowly egg-shaped leaves and pink and yellow flowers arranged in racemes near the ends of the branchlets.
Mirbelia densiflora is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect or straggling shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.2–1 m and has yellow or orange flowers from October to January. It was first formally described in 1942 by Charles Gardner in the Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia. The specific epithet (densiflora) means "crowded-flowers". This mirbelia grows on ridges and plains in the Coolgardie and Mallee bioregions of south-western Western Australia, and is listed as "Priority Three" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, meaning that it is poorly known and known from only a few locations but is not under imminent threat.
Mirbelia ferricola is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to inland parts of the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with leaves reduced to small scales, and red and yellow flowers arranged in racemes at the ends of the branches.
Mirbelia floribunda, commonly known as purple mirbelia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, slender or straggling, much-branched shrub with narrowly linear leaves and bluish-purple flowers.
Mirbelia granitica is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to inland areas of Western Australia. It is an erect or spreading shrub with spiny branches, scattered linear to narrowly egg-shaped leaves and yellow and red flowers.
Mirbelia longifolia 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 that typically grows to a height of 0.6–2.4 m and has yellow or orange and purple flowers from September to October. It was first formally described in 1942 by Charles Gardner in the Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia. The specific epithet (longifolia) means "long-leaved". This mirbelia grows on stony soil in the Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains and Yalgoo bioregions of south-western Western Australia, and is listed as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
Mirbelia microphylla is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with many branches that typically grows to a height of 15–100 cm (5.9–39.4 in) and has yellow and red flowers from August to October. It was first formally described in 1853 by Nikolai Turczaninow who gave it the name ''Dichosema microphyllum in the Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou. In 1864, George Bentham changed the name to Mirbelia microphylla in Flora Australiensis. The specific epithet (microphylla) means "small-leaved".
Mirbelia multicaulis is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, rigid shrub that typically grows to a height of 15–50 cm (5.9–19.7 in) and has erect stems with few branches. It has scattered, egg-shaped to oblong leaves 4–6 mm (0.16–0.24 in) long and spines that are longer than the leaves. The flowers are arranged in clusters in leaf axils or at the base of the spines and are yellow or orange and reddish-brown and appear in September and October. It was first formally described in 1853 by Nikolai Turczaninow who gave it the name Dichosema multicaule in the Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou. In 1864, George Bentham changed the name to Mirbelia multicaulis in Flora Australiensis. The specific epithet (multicaulis) means "many stems".
Mirbelia ramulosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, much-branched, spiny, leafless shrub with yellow and red, purple or brown flowers.
Mirbelia rhagodioides is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to inland areas of Western Australia. It is an erect, prickly shrub with clustered linear or narrowly elliptic leaves and yellow and red flowers.
Mirbelia seorsifolia 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 shrub that typically grows to a height of 15–70 cm (5.9–27.6 in) and has yellow and red flowers from August to December. It grows on sandplains in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Great Victoria Desert, Murchison and Yalgoo bioregions of south-western Western Australia. The species was first formally described in 1876 by Ferdinand von Mueller, who gave it the name Gastrolobium seorsifolium in Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae. In 1943, Charles Gardner changed the name to Mirbelia seorsifolia in Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis. The specific epithet (seorsifolia) means "separate leaves", referring to the well-spaced leaves. Mirbelia seorsifolia is listed as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
Mirbelia stipitata is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to inland areas of Western Australia. It is a spiny, more or less leafless shrub with yellow and red flowers.
Mirbelia subcordata 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 egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves and yellow or orange and red flowers.
Mirbelia trichocalyx is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a dense, erect, spiny shrub that typically grows to a height of 15–75 cm (5.9–29.5 in) and has orange or yellow and red flowers from July to October. It grows on plains, hills and breakaways in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions.
Cryptandra intratropica is a flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to the Kimberley region of Western Australia. It is a slender, erect or spreading shrub with wedge-shaped to oblong or egg-shaped leaves and clusters of yellow to cream-coloured, tube-shaped flowers arranged in head-like clusters.
Androcalva loxophylla is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to northern Australia. It is a shrub with spreading or low-lying branches, oblong to broadly elliptic leaves and clusters of 4 to 20 yellow flowers.