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Jacksonia calycina

Jacksonia calycina is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south west of Western Australia. It is an erect or straggling shrub with sharply pointed end branches, yellow-orange flowers with red and yellow markings, and woody, hairy pods.

Description

Jacksonia calycina is an erect or straggling shrub that typically grows up to high and wide, its branches dull green. Its leaves are reduced to egg-shaped scales with toothed edges, long and wide. The flowers are scattered along branches on a pedicel long. There are toothed, egg-shaped bracteoles long and wide on the pedicels. The floral tube is long and the sepals are membranous, the lobes long, wide and fused at the base for . The standard petal is orange with red markings and a yellow base, long and wide, the wings orange with a red base, long, and the keel deep red, long. The stamens filaments are white with a pink tip, long. Flowering occurs from July to November, and the fruit is a woody, elliptic pod, long and wide.

Taxonomy

Jacksonia calycina was first formally described in 1923 by Karel Domin in Vestnik Kralovske Ceske Spolecnosti Nauk, Trida Matematiko-Prirodevedecke from specimens collected by Arthur Dorrien-Smith. The specific epithet (calycina) means 'belonging to the calyx', used when the sepals are unusual.

Distribution and habitat

This species of Jacksonia grows in dense shrubland in the Stirling Range and Mount Manypeaks in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains and Jarrah Forest bioregions in the south-west of Western Australia.

Conservation status

Jacksonia calycina is listed as "Priority Four" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, meaning that is rare or near threatened.

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