Daviesia cardiophylla

Short description: Species of flowering plant

Daviesia cardiophylla

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Plantae
Clade:  | Tracheophytes
Clade:  | Angiosperms
Clade:  | Eudicots
Clade:  | Rosids
Order:  | Fabales
Family:  | Fabaceae
Subfamily:  | Faboideae
Genus:  | Daviesia
Species:  |

D. cardiophylla

Binomial name
Daviesia cardiophylla

Crisp[1]

Daviesia cardiophylla is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is an erect, spreading shrub with heart-shaped, sharply pointed phyllodes and yellow and red flowers.

## Contents

* 1 Description
* 2 Taxonomy and naming
* 3 Distribution and habitat
* 4 Conservation status
* 5 References

## Description

Daviesia cardiophylla is an erect shrub with widely spreading branchlets and that typically grows to a height of 0.5–1.5 m (1 ft 8 in–4 ft 11 in). Its leaves are reduced to heart-shaped, sometimes egg-shaped phyllodes, mostly 6–13 mm (0.24–0.51 in) long and 3–6 mm (0.12–0.24 in) wide with a sharply-pointed tip. The flowers are arranged singly or in pairs in leaf axils, each flower on a pedicel 2–8 mm (0.079–0.315 in) long with egg-shaped bracts about 1 mm (0.039 in) long at the base. The sepals are 3.5–4.5 mm (0.14–0.18 in) long and joined at the base, the upper lobes joined for most of their length. The standard petal is yellow or orange with a red centre, 9–10 mm (0.35–0.39 in) long and about 8 mm (0.31 in) wide, the wings red and 8–10 mm (0.31–0.39 in) long and the keel pale red and 10–13 mm (0.39–0.51 in) long. Flowering occurs from May to August and the fruit is a pod 10–15 mm (0.39–0.59 in) long.[2][3]

## Taxonomy and naming

Daviesia cardiophylla was first formally described in 1860 by Ferdinand von Mueller in Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae from specimens collected by Augustus Oldfield.[4][5] The specific epithet (cardiophylla) means "heart-leaved".[6]

## Distribution and habitat

This species of pea grows in woodland in flat or undulating country mainly in the central and southern wheatbelt, in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest and Mallee biogeographic regions of south-western Western Australia.[2][3]

## Conservation status

Daviesia cardiophylla is classified as "not threatened" by the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.[2]

## References

1. ↑ "Daviesia cardiophylla". Australian Plant Census. https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/82383.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Daviesia cardiophylla". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife. https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/3797.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Crisp, Michael D.; Cayzer, Lindy; Chandler, Gregory T.; Cook, Lyn G. (2017). "A monograph of Daviesia (Mirbelieae, Faboideae, Fabaceae)". Phytotaxa 300 (1): 89–90. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.300.1.1.
4. ↑ "Daviesia cardiophylla". APNI. https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/499486.
5. ↑ von Mueller, Ferdinand (1860). Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae. 2. Melbourne: Victorian Government Printer. pp. 105–106. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/7219#page/110/mode/1up. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
6. ↑ Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 158. ISBN 9780958034180.

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