''Daviesia eurylobos'' is a species of flowering plant in the family
and is
endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a spreading shrub with somewhat crowded, egg-shaped to elliptic
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 ...
s, and yellow and red flowers.
Description
''Daviesia eurylobos'' is a shrub that typically grows to a height of up to and has spreading branches. Its leaves are reduced to somewhat crowded, egg-shaped to elliptic phyllodes long and wide. The flowers are mostly arranged singly or in pairs in leaf axils on a
pedicel
Pedicle or pedicel may refer to:
Human anatomy
*Pedicle of vertebral arch, the segment between the transverse process and the vertebral body, and is often used as a radiographic marker and entry point in vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty procedures
...
long with egg-shaped
bract
In botany, a bract is a modified or specialized leaf, especially one associated with a reproductive structure such as a flower, inflorescence axis or cone scale. Bracts are usually different from foliage leaves. They may be smaller, larger, or of ...
s about long at the base. The
sepals are long and joined at the base, the two upper lobes joined for most of their length and the lower three triangular and about long. The
standard petal is broadly elliptic, long, wide and yellow with red markings, the
wings elliptic and long and the
keel long. Flowering occurs in July and August and the fruit is a broadly triangular
pod
Pod or POD may refer to:
Biology
* Pod (fruit), a type of fruit of a flowering plant
* Husk or pod of a legume
* Pod of whales or other marine mammals
* "-pod", a suffix meaning "foot" used in taxonomy
Electronics and computing
* Proper ort ...
long.
Taxonomy and naming
''Daviesia eurylobos'' was first formally described in 1997 by
Michael Crisp and
Gregory T. Chandler in ''
Australian Systematic Botany'' from specimens collected north-east of
Ravensthorpe Ravensthorpe may refer to any of the following places.
England
*Ravensthorpe, Dewsbury in West Yorkshire
**Ravensthorpe railway station, Dewsbury
*Ravensthorpe, Northamptonshire
*Ravensthorpe, Peterborough in Cambridgeshire
*Ravensthorpe, an histor ...
in 1979.
The
specific epithet
In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...
(''eurylobos'') means "wide pod".
Distribution and habitat
This daviesia grows in heathland and
mallee and is found between Ravensthorpe,
Lake King
Lake King is a town in the eastern Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, from Perth along State Route 40 between Kelmscott and Ravensthorpe. As of 2016, the town had a population of 95. The 2011 census recorded both the population of the tow ...
,
Peak Charles National Park and
Jerdacuttup
Jerdacuttup is a small town in Western Australia east-south-east of Perth between Ravensthorpe and Hopetoun in the Goldfields–Esperance region of Western Australia. At the 2006 census, Jerdacuttup had a population of six.
John Forrest ex ...
in the
Esperance plains and
Mallee biogeographic regions of south-western Western Australia.
Conservation status
''Daviesia eurylobos'' is listed as "not threatened" by the
Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions
The Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions (DBCA) is the Western Australian government
The Government of Western Australia, formally referred to as His Majesty's Government of Western Australia, is the Australian state de ...
References
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eurylobos
Eudicots of Western Australia
Plants described in 1997
Taxa named by Michael Crisp