Английская Википедия:Daviesia oxylobium
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Daviesia oxylobium is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, bushy shrub with sharply-pointed, cylindrical phyllodes, and yellow and pinkish-red flowers.
Description
Daviesia oxylobium is an erect, glaucous, bushy shrub that typically grows to a height of up to about Шаблон:Cvt. Its phyllodes are crowded, erect and club-shaped to cylindrical, Шаблон:Cvt long and Шаблон:Cvt wide with a sharply pointed tip. The flowers are arranged in leaf axils in up to three groups of three to five, each group on a peduncle Шаблон:Cvt long, the rachis Шаблон:Cvt long, each flower on a pedicel Шаблон:Cvt long with triangular bracts at the base. The sepals are Шаблон:Cvt long and joined for most of their length apart from five small teeth. The standard petal is broadly egg-shaped with a notched centre, Шаблон:Cvt long and Шаблон:Cvt wide, and yellow with a deep pinkish-red base. The wings are about Шаблон:Cvt long and pinkish-red, the keel Шаблон:Cvt long and dark red. Flowering occurs in July and August and the fruit is an inflated, triangular pod Шаблон:Cvt long.[1][2]
Taxonomy and naming
Daviesia oxylobium was first formally described in 1995 by Michael Crisp in Australian Systematic Botany from specimens he collected near Quairading in 1980.[3] The specific epithet (oxylobium) means "a sharp pod".[4]
Distribution and habitat
This daviesia grows in kwongan or woodland between Quairading, Corrigin, Bruce Rock and Yorkrakine in the Avon Wheatbelt and Jarrah Forest biogeographic regions of south-western Western Australia.[1][2]
Conservation status
Daviesia oxylobium is listed as "Priority Four" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions,[2] meaning that it is rare or near threatened.[5]
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