Английская Википедия:Daviesia alata
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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 Шаблон:Cvt in diameter with stems up to Шаблон:Cvt 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, Шаблон:Cvt long and Шаблон:Cvt wide on young plants. The flowers are arranged in leaf axils in groups of two to five on a peduncle Шаблон:Cvt long, each flower on a pedicel about Шаблон:Cvt long. The five sepals are Шаблон:Cvt long, the lobes about Шаблон:Cvt long. The standard petal is orange-red with a yellow centre, Шаблон:Cvt long, the wings maroon and about Шаблон:Cvt long and the keel maroon and about Шаблон:Cvt long. Flowering occurs from October to December and the fruit is a flattened triangular pod Шаблон:Cvt long.[1][2][3][4]
Taxonomy
Daviesia alata was first formally described in 1808 by James Edward Smith in Rees's Cyclopædia from specimens collected "near Port Jackson".[5][6]
Distribution and habitat
This pea grows in heath and forest on the coast and ranges of south-eastern New South Wales between Nelson Bay, the Budawangs and the Blue Mountains.[1]
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