Biology:Daviesia dilatata

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Short description: Species of flowering plant

Daviesia dilatata
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In the Australian National Botanic Gardens
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Genus: Daviesia
Species:
D. dilatata
Binomial name
Daviesia dilatata
Crisp[1]

Daviesia dilatata 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, glabrous shrub with scattered, often sickle-shaped phyllodes, and orange, red, yellow and dark crimson flowers.

Description

Daviesia dilatata is an erect, open, glabrous, shrub with greyish to glaucous foliage, and that typically grows to a height of up to 1 m (3 ft 3 in). Its leaves are reduced to scattered, erect but down-curved, often sickle-shaped phyllodes 7–50 mm (0.28–1.97 in) long and 2–8 mm (0.079–0.315 in) wide with a sharply pointed black tip. The flowers are arranged in clusters of three to eight on a peduncle up to 0.5 mm (0.020 in) long, the rachis 1–2 mm (0.039–0.079 in) long, each flower on a thread-like pedicel 1–3.5 mm (0.039–0.138 in) long with spatula-shaped bracts about 1 mm (0.039 in) long at the base. The sepals are 4–5 mm (0.16–0.20 in) long and joined at the base, the two upper lobes joined for most of their length and the lower three triangular. The standard is elliptic with a central notch, 6.0–6.5 mm (0.24–0.26 in) long, 6–7.5 mm (0.24–0.30 in) wide and orange with a red base and a yellow centre, the wings 6–6.5 mm (0.24–0.26 in) long and dark crimson, and the keel 5–6 mm (0.20–0.24 in) long and dark crimson. Flowering occurs in August and September and the fruit is a flattened, triangular pod 7–8 mm (0.28–0.31 in) long.[2][3]

Taxonomy and naming

Daviesia dilatata was first formally described in 1995 by Michael Crisp in the journal Australian Systematic Botany from specimens collected near Ravensthorpe in 1979.[4] The specific epithet (dilatata) means "enlarged", referring to the phyllodes that widen upwards.[5]

Distribution and habitat

This species of pea grows in heath and tall shrubland between Nyabing, Bremer Bay and Cape Arid National Park in the Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest and Mallee biogeographic regions of south-western Western Australia.[3][2]

Conservation status

Daviesia dilatata is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.[2]

References

  1. "Daviesia dilatata". Australian Plant Census. https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/139372. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Daviesia dilatata". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife. https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/12325. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Crisp, Michael D.; Cayzer, Lindy; Chandler, Gregory T.; Cook, Lyn G. (2017). "A monograph of Daviesia (Mirbelieae, Faboideae, Fabaceae)". Phytotaxa 300 (1): 228–229. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.300.1.1. 
  4. "Daviesia dilatata". APNI. https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/556955. 
  5. Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 183. ISBN 9780958034180. 

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