Jacksonia grevilleoides explained

Jacksonia grevilleoides is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south west of Western Australia. It is a prostrate or erect shrub with variably-shaped phylloclades, yellow-orange flowers and woody, densely hairy pods.

Description

Jacksonia grevilleoides is a prostrate or erect shrub that typically grows up to high and wide, its branches greyish green and prominently ribbed. Its phylloclades are irregular in size and shape, often branched, long and wide, the lobes sharply-pointed. The leaves are reduced to egg-shaped, reddish-brown scales, long and wide. The flowers are attached singly on the lobes of phylloclades on a straight pedicel long. There are egg-shaped bracteoles with toothed edges, long and wide on the pedicels. The floral tube is long and the sepals are membranous, the lobes long, wide and fused at the base for . The standard petal is yellow-orange, rarely with red markings, long and wide, the wings yellow-orange, long, and the keel yellow-orange, long. The filaments of the stamens are greenish white, long. Flowering occurs from November to April, and the fruit is a woody, densely hairy, narrowly elliptic pod, long and wide.[1]

Taxonomy

Jacksonia grevilleoides was first formally described in 1853 by Nikolai Turczaninow in the Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou from specimens collected by James Drummond.[2] [3] The specific epithet (grevilleoides) means Grevillea-like'.[4]

Distribution and habitat

This species of Jacksonia grows in sand or clay on flats and slopes in woodland or shrubland in the Stirling Range, Fitzgerald River National Park and at Cape Riche in the Avon Wheatbelt and Esperance Plains bioregions of south-western Western Australia.

Conservation status

Jacksonia grevilleoides is listed as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.

Notes and References

  1. Chappill . Jennifer A. . Wilkins . Carolyn F. . Crisp . Michael D. . Taxonomic revision of Jacksonia (Leguminosae: Mirbelieae). . Australian Systematic Botany . 2007 . 20 . 6 . 491–494 . 10.1071/SB06047 .
  2. Web site: Jacksonia grevilleoides . Australian Plant Name Index . 17 November 2024.
  3. Turczaninow . Nikolai . Papilionaceae. Podalyrieae et Loteae Australasicae Non-Nullae, Hucusque non Descriptae. . Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou . 1853 . 26 . 1 . 259–260 . 17 November 2024.
  4. Book: George . Alex . Sharr . Francis . Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings . 2021 . Four Gables Press . Kardinya, WA . 9780958034180 . 210 . 3rd.