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Daviesia
''Daviesia'', commonly known as bitter-peas, is a genus of about 130 species of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, and is endemic to Australia. Plants in the genus ''Daviesia'' are shrubs or small trees with leaves modified as phyllodes or reduced to scales. The flowers are arranged singly or in groups, usually in leaf axils, the sepals joined at the base with five teeth, the petals usually yellowish with reddish markings and the fruit a pod. Description Plants in the genus ''Daviesia'' are shrubs or small trees with their leaves modified as phyllodes that are often sharply-pointed, or have leaves reduced to scales with the stems modified as cladodes. The flowers are usually arranged in leaf axils, either singly or in clusters or racemes with bracts sometimes present on the peduncles, pedicels or flowering stems. The sepals are joined at the base to form a bell-shaped tube with five teeth, the two upper teeth usually wider and the petals are usually yellowish with reddish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daviesia Acicularis
''Daviesia acicularis'', commonly known as sharp bitter-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a small, wiry shrub with tapering, linear phyllodes, and single yellow to orange and dark red flowers. Description ''Daviesia acicularis'' is a wiry shrub that typically grows to a height of up to and has hairy foliage. The phyllodes are tapering linear to narrow elliptic, long and wide with the edges curved downwards or rolled under and a prominent mid-vein on the upper surface. The flowers are long and arranged singly on a peduncle long. The sepals are long and joined at the base. The standard petal is yellow to orange with dark red markings and long and the keel is dark red grading to pink near the base. Flowering occurs from August in the north to October in the south and the fruit is a triangular pod long. Taxonomy and naming ''Daviesia acicularis'' was first formally described in 1805 by James Edward Smith i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daviesia Anceps
''Daviesia anceps'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is a dense, erect or low-lying shrub with its branchlets reduced to flattened cladodes, and yellow flowers with red markings. Description ''Daviesia anceps'' is a dense, glabrous, erect or low-lying shrub that typically grows to a height of . Its branchlets are reduced to flattened cladodes wide and the leaves reduced to small scales. The flowers are arranged singly in upper scale-leaves on a pedicel long. The five sepals are long and joined at the base, the lobes long, the two upper lobes joined in a broad "lip" and the lower three triangular. The standard petal is broadly elliptic, yellow with red markings and a yellow centre and long, the wings yellow and about long and the keel yellow and the same length as the wings. Flowering mainly occurs from November to January and the fruit is an inflated triangular pod long. Taxonomy and naming ''Davi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daviesia Alternifolia
''Daviesia alternifolia'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a dense, spreading shrub with scattered, egg-shaped phyllodes with the narrower end towards the base, and orange and red flowers with a greenish-yellow centre. Description ''Daviesia alternifolia'' is a dense, spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of and has foliage covered with tiny hairs. The phyllodes are scattered along the branchlets, egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide with a pointed tip. The flowers are arranged in pairs or threes on a peduncle long, each flower on a pedicel long. The five sepals are long and joined at the base, the two upper lobes joined in a broad "lip" and the lower three triangular. The standard petal is orange with red markings and a greenish-yellow centre and long, the wings maroon and long and the keel maroon and long. Flowering mainly occurs from September to J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daviesia Cordata
''Daviesia cordata'', commonly known as bookleaf, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a slender, erect shrub with scattered egg-shaped phyllodes, and yellow-orange and pinkish-purple flowers. Description ''Daviesia cordata'' is a slender, erect, glabrous shrub that typically grows to a height of . Its leaves are reduced to scattered, spreading, egg-shaped phyllodes long and wide, with a heart-shaped, stem-clasping base. The flowers are arranged in groups of ten to fifteen in leaf axils on a peduncle long, each flower on a pedicel long with two circular bracts wide at the base. The sepals are long and joined at the base, the upper lobes joined for most of their length and the lower three triangular and about long. The standard is yellow with orange at the base and tip, circular to elliptic, long and wide. The wings are pinkish-red to purple and long and the keel pinkish purple and long. Fl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daviesia Aphylla
''Daviesia aphylla'' 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 glabrous foliage, up to six sharply-pointed phyllodes on each branchlet, and orange-red and yellow flowers. Description ''Daviesia aphylla'' is an erect, bushy shrub that typically grows to a height of up to and has glabrous foliage. Its leaves are reduced to up to six rigid, sharply-pointed phyllodes up to long near the end of each branchlet, otherwise leafless. The flowers are arranged in groups of four or more in leaf axils on a peduncle long, each flower on a pedicel long with oblong bracts at the base. The sepals are long and joined at the base with long. The standard is orange-red, grading to yellow at the tips, long and wide, the wings orange-brown grading to yellow at the tip, long and the keel white with a purple-red tip and about long. Flowering occurs from August to October and the fruit is a broad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daviesia Angulata
''Daviesia angulata'' 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 prickly, flattened phyllodes, and yellow flowers with red markings. Description ''Daviesia angulata'' is an erect, glabrous, spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of . Its leaves are reduced to flattened, sharply-pointed, tapering phyllodes wide and wide. The flowers are arranged in leaf axils in groups of between two and four on a peduncle long, each flower on a pedicel long with oblong bracts at the base. The sepals are long, the lobes about long, the two upper lobes joined in a broad "lip" and the lower three triangular. The standard petal is broadly egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base and a notched tip, yellow with red markings near the centre and long, the wings yellow, tinged with red and about long and the keel yellow with a red tinge and about long. Flowering mainly occurs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daviesia Alata
''Daviesia alata'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern New South Wales. It is a prostrate to low-lying shrub with winged branchlets that are triangular in cross-section, phyllodes reduced to scales, and orange, red, yellow and maroon flowers. Description ''Daviesia alata'' is a prostrate or low-lying shrub that typically spreads up to in diameter with stems up to long. The branchlets are triangular in cross-section, winged and dark green. The phyllodes are reduced to scales on mature plants but are egg-shaped to linear, long and wide on young plants. The flowers are arranged in leaf axils in groups of two to five on a peduncle long, each flower on a pedicel about long. The five sepals are long, the lobes about long. The standard petal is orange-red with a yellow centre, long, the wings maroon and about long and the keel maroon and about long. Flowering occurs from October to December and the fruit is a flattened trian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daviesia Apiculata
''Daviesia apiculata'' 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 scattered, erect phyllodes with a point on the end, and yellow flowers with a red tinge. Description ''Daviesia apiculata'' is an erect, bushy, glabrous shrub that typically grows to a height of . Its leaves are reduced to erect, cylindrical phyllodes wide and about wide with a more or less sharply-pointed tip. The flowers are yellow with a red tinge, arranged in groups of four to six in leaf axils on a peduncle long, each flower on a pedicel long with oblong bracts at the base. The sepals are long, the two lobes about long and joined in a broad "lip" and the lower three smaller and triangular. The standard petal is elliptic with a notched tip, long, the wings oblong and about long and the keel long. Flowering mainly occurs from November to May and the fruit is a triangular pod long. Taxonomy and naming ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daviesia Abnormis
''Daviesia abnormis'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, hairy shrub with sharply-pointed, narrow elliptic to narrow egg-shaped phyllodes with the narrower end towards the base, and yellow flowers with faint red markings. Description ''Daviesia abnormis'' is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of and has densely hairy foliage. The phyllodes are crowded near the ends of branchlets and are sharply pointed, narrow elliptic to narrow egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide. The flowers are arranged singly on a pedicel long with bracts about long, the flowers almost obscured by the phyllodes. The five sepals are long and joined at the base, the two upper lobes more or less fused and the lower three triangular. The petals are yellow with faint red markings, the standard petal long, the wings long and the keel sac-like and long. Flowering occurs in Marc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phyllode
Phyllodes are modified petioles or leaf stems, which are leaf-like in appearance and function. In some plants, these become flattened and widened, while the leaf itself becomes reduced or vanishes altogether. Thus the phyllode comes to serve the purpose of the leaf. Some important examples are ''Euphorbia royleana'' which are cylindrical and '' Opuntia'' which are flattened. They are common in the genus ''Acacia'', especially the Australian species, at one time put in ''Acacia'' subg. ''Phyllodineae''. Sometimes, especially on younger plants, partially formed phyllodes bearing reduced leaves can be seen. The illustration (to the right) of ''Acacia suaveolens'' from ''Novae Hollandiae plantarum specimen'' shows the juvenile true leaves, together with the developing phyllodes, and the phyllodes of the mature plant. The genus, ''Daviesia'', in the family Fabaceae, is characterised in part by the plants having phyllodes. File:Acacia suaveolens 9064505997 9f14f5f117 o.jpg, ''Acacia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Papilionaceous Flower
Papilionaceous flowers (from Latin: ''papilion'', a butterfly) are flowers with the characteristic irregular and butterfly-like corolla found in many, though not all, plants of the species-rich Faboideae subfamily of legumes. Tournefort suggested that the term ''Flores papilionacei'' originated with Valerius Cordus, who applied it to the flowers of the bean. Structure Corolla The flowers have a bilateral symmetry with the corolla consisting of five petals. A single, large, upper petal is known as the banner (also vexillum or standard petal). The semi-cylindrical base of the banner embraces and compresses two equal and smaller lateral wings (or alae). The wings in turn enclose a pair of small keel petals, that are situated somewhat lower than the wings, but are interior to them. They have concave sides and correspond with the shape of the wings. The two keel petals are fused at their bases or stuck together to form a boat-shaped structure that encloses the essential flower organs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Davies (botanist)
Hugh Davies (3 April 1739 – 16 February 1821) was a Welsh botanist and Anglican clergyman. He spent most of his professional life on the island of Anglesey and published a treatise on the flora of the county, which was the first volume to cross-reference plant names in the Welsh language with their scientific names. Life Davies was born in the parish of Llandyfrydog, Anglesey, Wales, where his father was the rector of St Tyfrydog's Church, Llandyfrydog. He was educated at Beaumaris grammar school and then went to Oxford, studying at Jesus College as his father had done. He matriculated in 1757 and was awarded his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1762. After being ordained, he was a curate at Llangefni (1763–1766), Llanfaes and Penmon (1766–1785) and Penmynydd (1775–1778), all in Anglesey. He then became rector of Llandegfan with Beaumaris in 1778, before his appointment as rector of Aber, Caernarvonshire in 1787. He resigned in 1816, although he had lived in Beaumari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
