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Jacksonia rhadinoclada

Jacksonia rhadinoclada is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to inland areas of Western Australia. It is a spreading to prostrate, delicate shrub with many dull green branches, the end branches sharply-pointed phylloclades, the leaves reduced to black, egg-shaped scales, yellow-orange and red flowers, and woody, densely hairy, elliptic pods.

Description

Jacksonia rhadinoclada is a spreading to prostrate, delicate shrub that typically grows up to high and wide. It has many dull green branches, the end branches sharply-pointed phylloclades, its leaves reduced to egg-shaped, black scales, long and wide with toothed edges. The flowers are densely arranged along the branches on pedicels long, with egg-shaped bracteoles long and wide at the base of the floral tube. The floral tube is long and not ribbed, and the sepals are membranous, with lobes long, wide and fused for . The standard petal is yellow-orange with red markings, long and deep, the wings yellow-orange with red markings long, and the keel is red, long. The stamens have orange-red filaments, long. Flowering occurs from June to November, and the fruit is an elliptic, woody, densely hairy pod long and wide.

Taxonomy

Jacksonia rhadinoclada was first formally described in 1876 by Ferdinand von Mueller in his Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae. The specific epithet (rhadinoclada) means 'slender shoot or branch'.

Distribution and habitat

This species of Jacksonia grows on sand or brown clay-loam in shrubland or woodland in inland areas of Western Australia between Pindar and Bencubbin in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Geraldton Sandplains and Yalgoo bioregions of Western Australia.

Conservation status

Jacksonia rhadinoclada is listed as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.

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