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Daviesia podophylla
Daviesia podophylla, commonly known as buggery bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an openly-branched, glabrous, glaucous shrub with many often sharply-pointed branchlets, triangular phyllodes with a sharp point on the end, and orange-yellow, dark red and black flowers.
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Description
Daviesia podophylla is an openly-branched, glabrous, glaucous shrub that typically grows up to 1 m (3 ft 3 in) high and 2 m (6 ft 7 in) wide, and has many, often sharply-pointed branchlets. Its phyllodes are moderately crowded, vertically flattened, triangular, up to 25 mm (0.98 in) long and 8 mm (0.31 in) wide, often with a sharp point one its the corners. The flowers are usually arranged singly or pairs in leaf axils on a peduncle 1–2.5 mm (0.039–0.098 in) long, the rachis up to 0.5 mm (0.020 in) long, each flower on a pedicel 2–4 mm (0.079–0.157 in) long with spatula-shaped bracts about 0.5 mm (0.020 in) long at the base. The sepals are 2.5–3.0 mm (0.098–0.118 in) long and joined at the base the upper two lobes joined for most of their length and the lower three flared. The standard petal is broadly egg-shaped with a notched centre or heart-shaped, 7.5–8.0 mm (0.30–0.31 in) long, 6–7 mm (0.24–0.28 in) wide, and yellow-orange with a dark red centre. The wings are 6.0–8.5 mm (0.24–0.33 in) long and black with a dark red edge, the keel 7.0–7.5 mm (0.28–0.30 in) long, dark red and black. Flowering mainly occurs from June to August and the fruit is a flattened, triangular pod 11–16 mm (0.43–0.63 in) long.
Range & habitat
This daviesia grows in heath between Perth and Kalbarri, and is common from Jurien Bay to Three Springs, in the Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain biogeographic regions of south-western Western Australia.
Wikipedia: “Distribution and habitat”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1244074.