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''Podolobium ilicifolium'', commonly known as prickly shaggy-pea, is a flowering plant in the family and grows in eastern and southern Australia. The inflorescence is a cluster of yellow or orange pea-like flowers with red markings and shiny green, prickly foliage.
''Podolobium ilicifolium'', commonly known as prickly shaggy-pea, is a flowering plant in the family and grows in eastern and southern Australia. The inflorescence is a cluster of yellow or orange pea-like flowers with red markings and shiny green, prickly foliage.
Description
''Podolobium ilicifolium'' is an upright shrub to high with more or less smooth or soft hairy stems. The leaves are arranged opposite or nearly so, oval to narrowly oval shaped, long and wide, upper surface smooth, distinctly veined, shiny, lower surface sometimes with soft hairs, margins lobed with a sharp point, on a petiole about long. The inflorescences are borne in leaf axils or at the end of branches on apedicel
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long. The corolla
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is long, standard petal yellow or yellowish-orange with a reddish centre, wings yellowish, and the keel is red. Flowering occurs from spring to early summer and the fruit is an oval or oblong pod
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about long and in diameter, and may be curved or straight.Les Robinson - Field Guide to the Native Plants of Sydney, page 83
Taxonomy and naming
''Podolobium ilicifolium'' was first formally described in 1995 by Michael Crisp and Peter Weston and the description was published in ''Advances in Legume Systematics''. Thespecific 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 ...
(''ilicifolium'') means "holly leaved ".
Distribution and habitat
Prickly shaggy-pea is a common plant, found in dry or moist sclerophyll forest, often on clay or sandstone based soils in New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria.References
{{Taxonbar, from=Q7207036 Fabales of Australia Flora of New South Wales Flora of Queensland Flora of Victoria (state) ilicifolium Taxa named by Henry Cranke Andrews