Jacksonia ramosissima
Jacksonia ramosissima is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Queensland. It is an erect, densely-branching, soft shrub with leaves reduced to egg-shaped, greyish scales, yellow-orange flowers densely arranged near the ends of branches, and woody, elliptical fruit densely covered with white hairs.
Description
Jacksonia ramosissima is an erect, densely-branching, soft shrub that typically grows up to high and wide. It has dull green or greyish-green branches, the end branches long and long. Its leaves are reduced to egg-shaped scales, long and wide. The flowers are densely arranged near the ends of branches, each flower on a pedicel long, with broadly lance-shaped bracteoles long and wide. The floral tube is long and the sepals are membraneous, the upper lobes long and wide, the lower lobes longer and narrower. The flowers are yellow-orange, the standard petal long and wide, the wings long, and the keel long. The stamens have green to pink filaments and are long. Flowering occurs from May to October, and the fruit is a woody, elliptic pod long and wide and densely covered with white hairs.
Taxonomy
Jacksonia ramosissima was first formally described in 1848 by George Bentham in Thomas Mitchell Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia. The specific epithet means 'much branched'.
Distribution and habitat
This species of Jacksonia grows in woodland in sandy loam over sandstone or laterite in northern inland Queensland.
Conservation status
This species is listed as of "least concern" by the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992.