''Dillwynia ramosissima'', commonly known as bushy parrot-pea,
is a species of flowering plant in the family
and is
endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is a low-lying to erect shrub with linear to narrow oblong or spatula-shaped leaves and yellow flowers with red markings.
Description
''Dillwynia ramosissima'' is a low-lying to erect shrub that typically grows to a height of with
glabrous, often spiny stems. The leaves are linear to narrow oblong or spatula-shaped, long and about wide on a
petiole about long, and with the edges rolled under. The flowers are arranged singly in leaf axils near the ends of branchlets 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 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 about long. The
sepals are hairy, long and more or less glabrous, the
standard petal is yellow with red veins, long, the
wings shorter and yellow and the
keel is red. Flowering occurs from August to November and the fruit is an oval
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
''Dillwynia ramosissima'' was first formally described in 1837 by
George Bentham in ''Commentationes de Leguminosarum Generibus''.
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 ...
(''ramosissima'') means "much-branched".
Distribution
This dillwynia grows in heath and forest south from the
Cudgegong River
Cudgegong River, a perennial stream that is part of the Macquarie catchment within the Murray–Darling basin, is located in the central western and Orana districts of New South Wales, Australia.
The river rises of the western slopes of the ...
in New South Wales and in central Victoria.
References
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ramosissima
Flora of New South Wales
Flora of Victoria (state)
Plants described in 1837
Taxa named by George Bentham