Darwinia oederoides

Darwinia oederoides is a species of flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a low, spreading shrub with linear leaves and clusters of pendent flowers surrounded by red and yellow bracts.

Darwinia oederoides
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Myrtales
Family: Myrtaceae
Genus: Darwinia
Species:
D. oederoides
Binomial name
Darwinia oederoides
Occurrence data from AVH
Synonyms[1]

Genetyllis oederoides Turcz.

Description

Darwinia oederoides is a spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of 10–30 cm (3.9–11.8 in). It has scattered linear leaves that are triangular to round in cross-section and 4–6 mm (0.16–0.24 in) long. The flowers are arranged in clusters of about 4 surrounded by narrow red and yellow bracts nearly 25 mm (0.98 in) long. Flowering occurs from October to January.[2][3]

This species is similar in appearance to the endangered species Darwinia whicherensis.[4]

Taxonomy

The species was first formally described in 1849 by Nikolai Turczaninow who gave it the name Genetyllis oederoides and published the description in Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou.[5][6] In 1865, George Bentham changed the name to Darwinia oederoides in The Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany.[7] The specific epithet (oederoides) means "Oedera-like".[8]

Distribution and habitat

Darwinia oederoides is often found in wet depressions and along watercourses in the Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Swan Coastal Plain and Warren bioregions of Western Australia where it grows in sandy soils.[3]

References
  1. "Darwinia oederoides". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 4 November 2022.
  2. Bentham, George (1867). Flora Australiensis. Vol. 3. London: Lovell Reeve & Co. p. 10. Retrieved 7 November 2022.
  3. "Darwinia oederoides". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  4. "Conservation Advice Darwinia whicherensis Abba bell" (PDF). Department of Environment. Retrieved 5 February 2017.
  5. "Genetyllis oederoides". APNI. Retrieved 7 November 2022.
  6. Turczaninow, Nikolai (1849). "Decas sexta generum plantarum hucusque non descriptorum adjectis descriptionibus specierum nonnullarum". Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou. 22 (3): 18–19. Retrieved 7 November 2022.
  7. "Darwinia oederoides". APNI. Retrieved 8 November 2022.
  8. Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 265. ISBN 9780958034180.
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