''Daviesia ovata'', commonly known as broad-leaf daviesia,
is a species of flowering plant in the family
and is
endemic to a restricted part of the south-west of Western Australia. It is a dense, bushy,
glabrous shrub with 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 orange and maroon flowers.
Description
''Daviesia ovata'' is a dense, bushy shrub that typically grows to a height of up to with erect, prominently ridges branchlets. Its phyllodes are scattered, erect and egg-shaped to elliptic, long and wide. The flowers are arranged in leaf axils in groups of eight to eleven flowers on a
peduncle Peduncle may refer to:
*Peduncle (botany), a stalk supporting an inflorescence, which is the part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed
*Peduncle (anatomy), a stem, through which a mass of tissue is attached to a body
**Peduncle (art ...
long, the
rachis long, each flower 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
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 long at the base. The
sepals are long and joined at the base, the upper two with lobes about long and the lower three lobes about long. The
standard petal is elliptic with a notched tip, long, wide, and orange with a red ring around a yellow centre. The
wings are long and the
keel about long and maroon. Flowering occurs in September and the fruit is a 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 ...
about long.
Taxonomy
''Daviesia ovata'' was first described in 1864 by
George Bentham in ''
Flora Australiensis'' from specimens collected by
James Drummond.
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 ...
(''ovata'') means "wider below the middle".
Distribution and habitat
Broad-leaf daviesia grows among granite rocks in low
mallee-heath or shrubland near
Mount Manypeaks
Mount Manypeaks is a distinctive peak located approximately north-east of Albany, north-east of Two Peoples Bay and south-east of the town of Manypeaks, in Western Australia. Mount Manypeaks Nature Reserve lies to the south of the peak, e ...
, east of
Albany in the
Esperance Plains biogeographic region of south-western Western Australia.
Conservation status
This daviesia is listed as "
Threatened" by the Western Australian Government
Department of Parks and Wildlife
The Department of Parks and Wildlife (DPaW) was the department of the Government of Western Australia responsible for managing lands described in the ''Conservation and Land Management Act 1984'' and implementing the state's conservation and e ...
,
meaning that it is in danger of extinction.
References
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ovata
Flora of Western Australia
Taxa named by George Bentham
Plants described in 1864