Dillwynia brunioides, commonly known as sandstone parrot-pea,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to New South Wales. It is an erect shrub with silky-hairy stems, linear, grooved leaves and yellow flowers with red markings.
| Sandstone parrot-pea | |
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| In Booderee National Park | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Faboideae |
| Genus: | Dillwynia |
| Species: | D. brunioides
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| Binomial name | |
| Dillwynia brunioides | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Pultenaea brunioides (Meisn.) Joy Thomps. | |
Description
editDillwynia brunioides is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.3–1 m (1 ft 0 in – 3 ft 3 in) with silky-hairy stems. The leaves are arranged alternately at angles to the stem, linear, more or less triangular in cross-section, 5–15 mm (0.20–0.59 in) long with a longitudinal groove on the upper surface and minutely pimply. The flowers are arranged in heads of up to nine flowers on the ends of branchlets with bracts and bracteoles about 4 mm (0.16 in) long. The sepals are hairy, 5–6 mm (0.20–0.24 in) long and joined at the base. The standard petal is 8–10 mm (0.31–0.39 in) long and the keel is yellow with red markings.[2][3]
Taxonomy and naming
editDillwynia brunioides was first formally described in 1844 by Carl Meissner in Lehmann's Plantae Preissianae.[4][5]
Distribution
editThis dillwynia grows in forest and heath on sandstone on the coast and ranges between the Blue Mountains, the Budawangs and Jervis Bay in eastern New South Wales.[2][3]
References
edit- ^ a b "Dillwynia brunioides". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
- ^ a b c "Dillwynia brunioides". Lucid Keys. Retrieved 21 May 2021.
- ^ a b "Dillwynia brunioides". Royal Botanic Garden Sydney. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
- ^ "Dillwynia brunioides". APNI. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
- ^ Meissner, Carl; Lehmann, Johann G.C. (1844). Plantae Preissianae. Vol. 1. Hamburg. p. 62. Retrieved 22 May 2021.