Jacksonia lanicarpa
Jacksonia lanicarpa is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to inland Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with yellow to greyish-green branches, leaves reduced to egg-shaped scales, yellow-orange flowers, and woody, densely hairy pods.
Description
Jacksonia lanicarpa is an erect shrub that typically grows up to high and wide. It has yellow to greyish-green branches, the end branches phylloclades, its leaves reduced to egg-shaped, dark brown scales, long and wide but fall off as they mature. The flowers are arranged singly at the ends of branches on a pedicel long, with lance-shaped bracteoles long and wide but that fall off as the flowers open. The floral tube is about long and the sepals are membranous, with lobes long and wide and fused for. The flowers are yellow-orange, the standard petal long and deep, the wings about long, and the keel, about long. The stamens have pink filaments and long. Flowering occurs from October to December, and the fruit is a woody, densely hairy pod about long and wide.
Taxonomy
Jacksonia lanicarpa was first formally described in 2007 by Jennifer Anne Chappill in Australian Systematic Botany from specimens collected near Mount Magnet in 1996. The specific epithet means 'wool-fruited', referring to the long, spreading hairs on the fruit.
This species of Jacksonia grows in open shrubland on red sand, and is only known from near Cue and Cundeelee in the Coolgardie and Murchison bioregions of inland Western Australia.
Jacksonia lanicarpa is listed as "Priority One" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, meaning that it is known from only one or a few locations where it is potentially at risk.