| Devil's pins | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Faboideae |
| Genus: | Hovea |
| Species: | H. pungens |
| Binomial name | |
| Hovea pungens | |
Hovea pungens, commonly known as devil's pins, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is a small, upright shrub with dark green leaves and purple flowers.
Hovea pungens is an upright shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.2 to 1.8 metres (1 to 6 ft), and single stemmed or multi-branched. The branchlets thickly covered with a combination of straight, creased, flattened to spreading or upright hairs. The dark green leaves are linear, elliptic-oblong to egg or lance-shaped, 1–2.5 cm (0.39–0.98 in) long and up to 3 mm (0.12 in) wide, upper surface smooth, lower surface hairy, margins rolled under, petiole 0.5 mm (0.020 in) long, and the leaves ending in a sharp point. The inflorescence are in leaf axils either sessile or on a peduncle up to 1 mm (0.039 in) long. The purple pea-shaped flowers are borne singly or in a small grouping of two or three on a pedicel 0.3–0.9 cm (0.12–0.35 in) long that are thickly covered in hairs. The standard petal is 12–16.8 mm (0.47–0.66 in) long and 12–16 mm (0.47–0.63 in) wide with a white centre flare,wings are 9.8–12.5 mm (0.39–0.49 in) long and 3.5–6.2 mm (0.14–0.24 in) wide, and the keel 4.2–6.7 mm (0.17–0.26 in) long and 2.2–7 mm (0.087–0.276 in) wide. Flowering occurs from May to November and the fruit is a smooth, oval or ellipsoid pod, 0.6–0.9 mm (0.024–0.035 in) long and 0.7–0.9 mm (0.028–0.035 in) wide. The Noongar name for the plant is buyenak. [2] [3] [4]
Hovea pungens was first formally described in 1837 by George Bentham and the description was published in Enumeratio plantarum quas in Novae Hollandiae ora austro-occidentali ad fluvium Cygnorum et in sinu Regis Georgii collegit Carolus Liber Baro de Hügel . [5] [6] The specific epithet (pungens) means "ending in a sharp, hard point" referring to the leaf. [7]
Devil's pins grows in shallow soils among granite, sandy and clay loams, outcrops, coastal limestone on flats, woodland, low heath and undulating sandplains. The species has a distribution on the south west coast in the Wheatbelt, Peel, South West, Great Southern and Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia. [2] [4]
Hibbertia stellaris, commonly known as star guinea flower or orange stars, is a brilliantly orange flowering ground cover from the South Western Australian botanical province. It naturally grows in swamps; despite this, it is extremely sensitive to phytophthora and needs to be grown in well-drained soil in cultivation.
Gompholobium huegelii, commonly known as common wedge-pea is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is an erect or spreading shrub with trifoliate leaves and cream-coloured to yellow and greenish, pea-like flowers.
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Boronia falcifolia, commonly known as the wallum boronia, is a plant in the citrus family, Rutaceae and is endemic to near-coastal areas of eastern Australia. It is a shrub with only a few stems, usually three-part leaves and bright pink, four-petalled flowers.
Hemiandra linearis, commonly known as speckled snakebush, is a species of prostrate to ascending shrub that is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia.
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Gompholobium aristatum is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of 10–80 cm (3.9–31.5 in). It flowers between July and December producing yellow, pea-like flowers. This species was first formally described in 1837 by George Bentham in Stephan Endlicher's Enumeratio plantarum quas in Novae Hollandiae ora austro-occidentali ad fluvium Cygnorum et in sinu Regis Georgii collegit Carolus Liber Baro de Hügel from specimens collected in the Swan River Colony. The specific epithet (aristatum) means "awned", referring to the leaves.
Kennedia carinata is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a prostrate shrub with trifoliate leaves and reddish-purple, pea-like flowers.
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