Daviesia villifera is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a hairy shrub with arching branches, sharply-pointed egg-shaped to heart-shaped phyllodes, and yellow and dark red flowers.
| Daviesia villifera | |
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| Near Helidon | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Faboideae |
| Genus: | Daviesia |
| Species: | D. villifera
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| Binomial name | |
| Daviesia villifera | |
Description
editDaviesia villifera is an open shrub with arching branches, that typically grows to a height of 1.5–2 m (4 ft 11 in – 6 ft 7 in) and has most parts covered with bristly hairs. The phyllodes are crowded, broadly to narrowly egg-shaped to heart-shaped, 5–10 mm (0.20–0.39 in) long and 2–6 mm (0.079–0.236 in) wide and sharply-pointed. The flowers are arranged singly or in pairs in leaf axils on a peduncle 0.5–1.1 mm (0.020–0.043 in) long, the individual flowers on a pedicel 1.5–8.5 mm (0.059–0.335 in) long. The sepals are 2.4–2.9 mm (0.094–0.114 in) long and joined at the base, the upper two joined for most of their length and the lower three broadly triangular. The standard petal is egg-shaped, about 5 mm (0.20 in) long and 5.75 mm (0.226 in) wide and yellow with a red base and rich yellow centre, the wings yellow with a red base and about 5 mm (0.20 in) long, and the keel dull red and 4.75 mm (0.187 in) long. Flowering occurs from June to October and the fruit is a flattened triangular pod 9–11 mm (0.35–0.43 in) long.[2][3]
Taxonomy and naming
editDaviesia villifera was first formally described in 1837 by George Bentham from an unpublished description by Allan Cunningham. Bentham's description was published in his Commentationes de Leguminosarum Generibus.[4] The specific epithet (villifera) means "bearing woolly or shaggy hair".[5]
Distribution and habitat
editThis bitter-pea usually in forest between Carnarvon National Park to Brisbane in Queensland, and near Grafton in northern New South Wales.[2][3]
References
edit- ^ "Daviesia villifera". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
- ^ a b Crisp, Michael D. "Daviesia villifera". Royal Botanic Garden Sydney. Retrieved 23 September 2021.
- ^ a b Crisp, Michael D.; Cayzer, Lindy; Chandler, Gregory T.; Cook, Lyn G. (2017). "A monograph of Daviesia (Mirbelieae, Faboideae, Fabaceae)". Phytotaxa. 300 (1): 135–136. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.300.1.1.
- ^ "Daviesia villifera". APNI. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
- ^ Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 336. ISBN 9780958034180.