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Dillwynia
''Dillwynia'' is a genus of about 20 species of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, and is endemic to Australia. Plants in this genus are shrubs with simple leaves and yellow or red and yellow flowers similar to others in the family. Description Plants in the genus ''Dillwynia'' are shrubs with simple leaves that are linear, needle-shaped leaves with a groove along the upper surface or triangular in cross-section. The flowers are yellow or red and yellow and usually arranged singly or in small groups in leaf axils or on the ends of branchlets. The upper two of five sepal lobes are joined in a single "lip", the standard petal is broader than long, and the keel is no longer than the wings. The stamens are free from each other, the ovary is on a short stalk and the fruit is a more or less sessile pod. Taxonomy The genus ''Dillwynia'' was first formally described in 1805 by James Edward Smith in ''Annals of Botany''. The name ''Dillwynia'' honours Lewis Weston Dillwyn "wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dillwynia Hispida
''Dillwynia hispida '', commonly known as red parrot-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is an erect shrub with more or less glabrous stems, linear to thread-like leaves and orange and red, partly crimson flowers. Description ''Dillwynia hispida'' is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of up to and has more or less glabrous stems. The leaves are linear to thread-like with the edges turned downwards, mostly long and usually covered with stiff hairs. The flowers are arranged in groups of up to nine on the ends of branchlets on a peduncle up to long, each flower on a pedicel long with bracts and bracteoles long. The sepals are long and usually hairy on the outside. The standard petal is long, orange and red and the keel usually protrudes from the red to crimson wings. The fruit is an oval to more or less spherical pod about long. Taxonomy ''Dillwynia hispida'' was first formally described i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dillwynia Floribunda
''Dillwynia floribunda '' is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect shrub with hairy stems, crowded, grooved, linear leaves and yellow flowers with red markings. Description ''Dillwynia floribunda'' is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of and has hairy stems. The leaves are crowded along the branches, linear, oval in cross-sectiom, with a longitudinal groove on the upper surface, long and mostly glabrous. The flowers are arranged in pairs in leaf axils near the ends of branches but often extending down the branches. The flowers are sessile or on a very short peduncle with bracts long and shorter bracteoles. The sepals are long and have a few long, fine hairs and the standard petal long. The fruit is a pod long. Taxonomy ''Dillwynia floribunda'' was first formally described in 1805 by James Edward Smith in the ''Annals of Botany'' from specimens collected at Port Jackson. The specific epithet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dillwynia Cinerascens
''Dillwynia cinerascens'', commonly known as grey parrot-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is an erect to low-lying shrub with linear or thread-like leaves and orange or yellow flowers. Description ''Dillwynia cinerascens'' is a low-lying to erect, heath-like shrub that grows to a height of with hairs flattened against its stems. The leaves are linear to thread-like, long and wide, sometimes with a few white hairs. The flowers are mostly orange or yellow and arranged in short racemes or corymbs, usually on the ends of branchlets, each flower sessile or on a short peduncle. There are hairy bracts about long and the sepals are about long. The standard petal is long, the wings shorter and the keel shortest. Flowering occurs from September to December and the fruit is an egg-shaped pod long and wide containing smooth seeds. Taxonomy ''Dillwynia cinerascens'' was first formally described by botanist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dillwynia Acicularis
''Dillwynia acicularis'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to New South Wales. It is an erect shrub with linear, grooved leaves and yellow flowers with red markings. Description ''Dillwynia acicularis'' is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of with hairy stems. The leaves are erect, narrow linear, sometimes triangular in cross-section, long with a longitudinal groove on the upper surface. The flowers are arranged in racemes on the ends of branchlets with leaves at the base, and hairy bracts and bracteoles about long. The sepals are long, and the standard petal is long and the keel is yellow with red markings. Taxonomy and naming ''Dillwynia acicularis'' was first formally described in 1825 by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle in his '' Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis''. The specific epithet (''acicularis'') means "needle-pointed". Distribution This dillwynia grows in forest on sandstone or granite in the Sydney ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dillwynia Glaucula
''Dillwynia glaucula'', commonly known as Michelago parrot-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern New South Wales. It is an erect shrub with lenticels on the stems, linear, grooved leaves and yellow flowers with red markings. Description ''Dillwynia glaucula'' is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of and has glabrous stems with conspicuous yellow lenticels. The leaves are linear, triangular in cross-section long with a longitudinal groove on the upper surface and glaucous when young. The flowers are arranged singly in upper leaf axils on a peduncle long with egg-shaped bracts long and similar bracteoles. The flowers are yellow with red markings, the sepals long and the standard petal long but much broader. Taxonomy ''Dillwynia glaucula'' was first formally described in 1998 by Peter Craig Jobson and Peter Henry Weston in the journal '' Telopea'' from specimens they collected near Windellama in 1997. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dillwynia Elegans
''Dillwynia elegans'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern New South Wales. It is an erect shrub with more or less cylindrical, grooved leaves and yellow flowers with red markings. Description ''Dillwynia elegans'' is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of and has stems that are hairy when young but become glabrous later. The leaves are crowded, linear, more or less cylindrical with a longitudinal groove and long. The flowers are arranged in pairs in leaf axils, in clusters near the ends of branches. The flowers are on peduncles with egg-shaped to lance-shaped bracts long and shorter bracteoles. The flowers are yellow with red markings, the sepals long and the standard petal long but much broader.Robinson, L. Field Guide to the Native Plants of Sydney. page 77 Taxonomy ''Dillwynia elegans'' was first formally described in 1839 by Stephan Endlicher in ''Novarum stirpium decades editae a Museo Caesario Palatino Vind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dillwynia Crispii
''Dillwynia crispii'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Morton National Park in eastern New South Wales. It is an erect shrub with glabrous, linear leaves and yellow flowers with red markings. Description ''Dillwynia crispii'' is an erect, single-stemmed shrub that typically grows to a height of with silky hairs between prominent leaf scars. The leaves are more or less erect, linear, sometimes triangular in cross-section, long with a longitudinal groove on the upper surface. The flowers are usually arranged in pairs in leaf axils on a peduncle long with bracts and bracteoles long. The sepals are pinkish or reddish, long and glabrous and the standard petal is long and yellow with red markings. Taxonomy and naming ''Dillwynia crispii'' was first formally described in 1999 by Peter C. Jobson and Peter H. Weston in the journal '' Telopea'' from specimens they collected near Nerriga. The specific epithet (''crispii'') honours Michael C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dillwynia Brunioides
''Dillwynia brunioides'', commonly known as sandstone parrot-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to New South Wales. It is an erect shrub with silky-hairy stems, linear, grooved leaves and yellow flowers with red markings. Description ''Dillwynia brunioides'' is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of with silky-hairy stems. The leaves are arranged alternately at angles to the stem, linear, more or less triangular in cross-section, long with a longitudinal groove on the upper surface and minutely pimply. The flowers are arranged in heads of up to nine flowers on the ends of branchlets with bracts and bracteoles about long. The sepals are hairy, long and joined at the base. The standard petal is long and the keel is yellow with red markings. Taxonomy and naming ''Dillwynia brunioides'' was first formally described in 1844 by Carl Meissner in Lehmann's ''Plantae Preissianae''. Distribution This dillwynia grows in forest and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dillwynia Glaberrima
''Dillwynia glaberrima'', the smooth parrot-pea, is a plant in the pea family, Fabaceae, native to Australia. Description This species is a spreading or erect shrub to 2 metres in height with cylindrical leaves to 2.5 cm long, with a short, often recurved apex. The bright yellow pea flowers have red markings and are proportionately quite wide. These appear in dense clusters at the end of the wiry branchlets from August to December (late winter to early summer) in its native range. It bears 4−6mm long pods with sparse hairs. Taxonomy The species was first formally described by English botanist James Edward Smith in ''Annals of Botany'' in 1805. The type was collected in Port Jackson. Distribution ''Dillwynia glaberrima'' occurs in woodland, open forest, heathy forest and heathland in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a States and territories of Australia, state in the southern centr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dillwynia Acerosa
''Dillwynia acerosa'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is an erect spindly shrub with hairy, needle-shaped leaves and yellow flowers. Description ''Dillwynia acerosa'' is an erect, spindly shrub that typically grows to a height of up to with hairy stems that are round in cross-section. The leaves or phylloclades are arranged alternately, needle-shaped, long and wide. The flowers are arranged on the ends of branchlets, each flower on a hairy pedicel long with hairy sepals long. The standard petal is long, the wings long and the keel long. There are ten stamens, the style is hairy and long. Flowering occurs in September and the fruit is a follicle that is not constricted between the seeds. Taxonomy and naming ''Dillwynia acerosa'' was first formally described in 1899 by Spencer Le Marchant Moore in ''Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany''. The specific epithet (''acerosa'') means "needle-shaped", referring ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dillwynia Divaricata
''Dillwynia divaricata'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, spindly shrub with cylindrical, grooved leaves and yellow flowers with brownish markings. Description ''Dillwynia divaricata'' is an erect, spindly shrub with glabrous branches but hairy leaves long and wide. The flowers are sessile or on a hairy pedicel up to long with hairy bracteoles about long, but that fall off as the flower opens. The sepals are also hairy, long and the corolla mostly yellow with brownish spots and blotches. The standard petal is long, the wings long and the keel long. Flowering mainly occurs from February to May. Taxonomy and naming This species was first formally described in 1853 by Nikolai Turczaninow in the ''Bulletin de la Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou'' and was given the name ''Eutaxia divaricata''. In 1864, George Bentham changed the name to ''Dillwynia divaricata'' in ''Flor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
