Jacksonia furcellata
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Jacksonia furcellata, commonly known as grey stinkwood,[1] is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a prostrate to low-lying, or weeping erect shrub with greyish-green branches, sharply-pointed side branches, its leaves reduced to scales leaves, yellowish-orange flowers, and woody, hairy pods.
Description
Jacksonia furcellata is prostrate to low-lying, or weeping, erect shrub, with sharply-pointed side branches that typically grows up to Template:Cvt high and Template:Cvt wide. It has greyish-green branches, the short end branches Template:Cvt long, about Template:Cvt wide and sharply-pointed. Its leaves are reduced to broadly egg-shaped scales with toothed edges, Template:Cvt long and Template:Cvt wide. The flowers are arranged on the ends of branches in raceme-like groups on a pedicel Template:Cvt long. There are egg-shaped bracteoles Template:Cvt long on the upper part of the pedicels. The floral tube is Template:Cvt long and the sepals are membranous, with Template:Cvt long and Template:Cvt wide. The standard petal is yellowish-orange with red markings, Template:Cvt long, the wings with a similar colour and Template:Cvt long, and the keel is orange-red, Template:Cvt long. The stamens have red filaments Template:Cvt long. Flowering occurs throughout the year with a peak from October to December or January to March, and the fruit is a woody hairy, pod Template:Cvt long and Template:Cvt wide.[2][1]
Taxonomy
This species was first formally described in 1813 by Aimé Bonpland who gave it the name Gompholobium furcellatum in his Description des Plantes Rares cultivees a Malmaison et a Navarre.[3][4] In 1825, Augustin Pyramus de Candolle transferred the species to Jacksonia as J. furcellata in his Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis.[5] The specific epithet (furcellata) means 'a small, two-pronged fork', referring to the branchlets.[6]
Distribution and habitat
Jacksonia furcellata grows in heath or woodland, often in winter-wet areas and is widespread between Dandaragan, the south-west corner of Western Australia, and east to the Lort River but absent for coastal areas between Augusta and Denmark, in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Swan Coastal Plain and Warren of south-western Western Australia.[1][2]
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