Family: Fabaceae
Daviesia arthropoda
Citation:
F. Muell., Fragm. Phyt. Aust. 8:225 (18_74).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: None
Description:
Rigid divaricate to 1 m high shrub; branchlets angular, pungent with decurrent leaf nerves; phyllode lamina flat horizontally, lanceolate, to 35 x c. 5 mm, broadest near the apex, with lateral venation visible, sessile, articulate.
Flowers c. 6 mm long, few in an umbel on a distinct peduncle, on pedicels 2-2.5 mm long; bract(s). oblong-navicular, 0.5-1 mm long, light-brown, glabrous except for fimbriate margins; calyx glabrous, obturbinate, 2-3 mm long, teeth narrow-triangular to apiculate, more or less recurved, flat, margins entire; standard broad-obcordate, c. 6 x c. 5.5 mm, on a short claw; keel triangular, narrowing to the base, obtuse.
Pod strongly compressed, oblique-triangular, c. 7 x c. 3.5 mm, upper suture nearly straight, lower curved in a semicircle.
Distribution:
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On dunes.
S.Aust.: NW, NU. W.Aust.; N.T.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: Sept.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
No text
Author:
Not yet available
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