Daviesia nova-anglica

Daviesia nova-anglica
In the Gibraltar Range National Park
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Fabales
Family:	Fabaceae
Subfamily:	Faboideae
Genus:	Daviesia
Species:	D. nova-anglica
Binomial name
Daviesia nova-anglica Crisp

Habit

Daviesia nova-anglica is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to northern New South Wales. It is an erect shrub with arching branches, sharply-pointed, egg-shaped to narrow egg-shaped phyllodes, and yellow flowers with red markings.

Description

Daviesia nova-anglica is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 2 m (6 ft 7 in) and has arching branches and hairy branchlets. The phyllodes are sharply-pointed, egg-shaped to narrow egg-shaped, 5–12 mm (0.20–0.47 in) long and 2.5–6 mm (0.098–0.236 in) wide. The flowers are usually arranged singly on a peduncle 0.8–4.0 mm (0.031–0.157 in) long with bracts 1.0–1.5 mm (0.039–0.059 in) long at the base. The five sepals are 2.5–3.0 mm (0.098–0.118 in) long and joined at the base, the two upper lobes more or less fused and the lower three triangular. The petals are yellow with red or maroon markings, the standard petal 6–7 mm (0.24–0.28 in) long, the wings 5.5–6.5 mm (0.22–0.26 in) long and the keel sac-like and about 5 mm (0.20 in) long. Flowering occurs from August to October and the fruit is a flattened pod 6.5–8 mm (0.26–0.31 in) long.

Taxonomy and naming

Daviesia nova-anglica was first formally described in 1990 by Michael Crisp in the journal Australian Systematic Botany from specimens collected east of Tenterfield in 1984.

Distribution

This species of pea mainly grows in sandy soil, usually derived from granite, in open forest with a scrubby understorey. It mainly occurs on the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales.