Английская Википедия:Daviesia eremaea

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Daviesia eremaea is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to central Australia. It is an erect, glabrous, multi-stemmed shrub with needle-like, more or less sharply-pointed phyllodes, and yellow and red flowers.

Description

Daviesia eremaea is an erect, glabrous, multi-stemmed shrub that typically grows to a height of Шаблон:Cvt. Its leaves are reduced to scattered, erect, needle-shaped, more or less sharply-pointed phyllodes Шаблон:Cvt long and about Шаблон:Cvt wide. The flowers are arranged in racemes of two to five on a peduncle Шаблон:Cvt long, the rachis Шаблон:Cvt long, each flower on a thin pedicel Шаблон:Cvt long with spatula-shaped bracts about Шаблон:Cvt long at the base. The sepals are Шаблон:Cvt long forming a bell shaped base with lobes about Шаблон:Cvt long. The standard petal is elliptic, about Шаблон:Cvt long, Шаблон:Cvt wide and yellow with a red base, the wings about Шаблон:Cvt long and red, and the keel about Шаблон:Cvt long and red. Flowering occurs from August to October and the fruit is a triangular pod Шаблон:Cvt long.[1][2][3]

Taxonomy and naming

Daviesia eremaea was first formally described in 1980 by Michael Crisp in the Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens.[3][4] The specific epithet (eremaea) refers to the desert habitat of this species.[3]

Distribution and habitat

Daviesia eremaea grows on sand dunes in grassland, sometimes on mountain slopes in mallee from near Alice Springs in the Northern Territory, west to the Pilbara and Great Victoria Desert regions of Western Australia and south to near the border with South Australia.[1][2][3]

Conservation status

This species of pea is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.[1]

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