Dillwynia elegans

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Dillwynia elegans
Dillwynia West Head.jpg
Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, Australia
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Genus: Dillwynia
Species:
D. elegans
Binomial name
Dillwynia elegans
Endl.[1]

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 0.2–2.0 m (7.9 in – 6 ft 6.7 in) 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 5–22 mm (0.20–0.87 in) 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 1–2 mm (0.039–0.079 in) long and shorter bracteoles. The flowers are yellow with red markings, the sepals 4–7 mm (0.16–0.28 in) long and the standard petal 4–7 mm (0.16–0.28 in) long but much broader.[2][3][4]

Taxonomy[]

Dillwynia elegans was first formally described in 1839 by Stephan Endlicher in Novarum stirpium decades editae a Museo Caesario Palatino Vindobonensi from a specimen growing in Charles von Hügel's garden.[5][6]

This species is regarded as a synonym of Dillwynia floribunda var. teretifolia (DC.) Blakely by the National Herbarium of New South Wales.[3][5]

Distribution and habitat[]

This dillwynia grows on rocky, sandy ridges in heath and forest beween Port Jackson to near Rylstone.

References[]

  1. ^ "Dillwynia elegans". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  2. ^ Robinson, L. Field Guide to the Native Plants of Sydney. ISBN 978-0-7318-1211-0 page 77
  3. ^ a b P.H. Weston & P.C. Jobson. "Dillwynia elegans". - New South Wales Flora Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
  4. ^ "Dillwynia elegans". Lucid Keys. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  5. ^ a b "Dillwynia elegans". APNI. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  6. ^ Endlicher, Stephan; Fenzl, Eduard (1839). Novarum stirpium decades editae a Museo Caesario Palatino Vindobonensi. p. 13. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
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