''Podolobium procumbens'', commonly known as trailing shaggy-pea, trailing podolobium or trailing oxylobium,
is a flowering plant in the family
and is
endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a trailing small shrub with oval-shaped leaves and orange pea-like flowers.
Description
''Podolobium procumbens'' is a low, spreading shrub to tall with smooth stems and forms a
lignotuber. The leaves may be arranged opposite or in whorls, oval-shaped, long, wide, upper surface smooth, wavy, shiny and veined, lower surface with occasional hairs, pointed at the apex on a
petiole long. The
inflorescence are in small clusters at the end of branches or in leaf axils on a silky
pedicel
Pedicle or pedicel may refer to:
Human anatomy
*Pedicle of vertebral arch, the segment between the transverse process and the vertebral body, and is often used as a radiographic marker and entry point in vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty procedures
...
long. The
bracteoles are narrow lance-shaped, the
calyx
Calyx or calyce (plural "calyces"), from the Latin ''calix'' which itself comes from the Ancient Greek ''κάλυξ'' (''kálux'') meaning "husk" or "pod", may refer to:
Biology
* Calyx (anatomy), collective name for several cup-like structures ...
long with flattened, soft, short hairs. The
corolla
Corolla may refer to:
*Corolla (botany), the petals of a flower, considered as a unit
*Toyota Corolla, an automobile model name
* Corolla (headgear), an ancient headdress in the form of a circlet or crown
* ''Corolla'' (gastropod), a genus of moll ...
long, orange with red markings, the
standard petal almost orb-shaped, orange with a red centre, the
wings orange, and the
keel is reddish. Flowering occurs from November to January and the fruit is an oblong
pod
Pod or POD may refer to:
Biology
* Pod (fruit), a type of fruit of a flowering plant
* Husk or pod of a legume
* Pod of whales or other marine mammals
* "-pod", a suffix meaning "foot" used in taxonomy
Electronics and computing
* Proper ort ...
, long, either straight or curved, and covered with long, straight, soft hairs.
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Taxonomy and naming
Trailing shaggy-pea was first formally described in 1855 by botanist Ferdinand von Mueller
Baron Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller, (german: Müller; 30 June 1825 – 10 October 1896) was a German-Australian physician, geographer, and most notably, a botanist. He was appointed government botanist for the then colony of Vict ...
who gave it the name ''Oxylobium procumbens'' in ''Definitions of rare or hitherto undescribed Australian plants''.specific 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 ...
(''procumbens'') means "procumbent
This page provides a glossary of plant morphology. Botanists and other biologists who study plant morphology use a number of different terms to classify and identify plant organs and parts that can be observed using no more than a handheld magnify ...
".nomen nudum
In taxonomy, a ''nomen nudum'' ('naked name'; plural ''nomina nuda'') is a designation which looks exactly like a scientific name of an organism, and may have originally been intended to be one, but it has not been published with an adequate descr ...
, that is, there was no Latin description.
Distribution and habitat
Trailing shaggy-pea occurs in sclerophyll forests and woodland in Victoria and south-eastern New South Wales.
References
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Fabales of Australia
Flora of New South Wales
Flora of Victoria (state)
procumbens
Plants described in 1855
Taxa named by Ferdinand von Mueller