Jacksonia restioides
Jacksonia restioides 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 greyish-green branches, the end branches sharply-pointed phylloclades, the leaves reduced to dark brown, egg-shaped scales, yellow flowers with red markings, and woody, densely hairy, more or less round pods.
Description
Jacksonia restioides is an erect to spreading or straggling shrub that typically grows up to high and wide. It has greyish-green branches, the end branches sharply-pointed phylloclades, its leaves reduced to egg-shaped, dark brown scales, long and wide with toothed edges. The flowers are scattered near the ends of branches on a pedicel long, with egg-shaped bracteoles long and wide on the upper part of the pedicel. 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 with a red "eye", long and deep, the wings yellow with red markings long, and the keel is yellow with red markings, long. The stamens have red filaments, long. Flowering occurs from August to May, and the fruit is a more or less round, woody, densely hairy pod long and wide.
Taxonomy
Jacksonia restioides was first formally described in 1844 by Carl Meissner in Lehmann'sPlantae Preissianae. The specific epithet means 'like Restio'.
Distribution and habitat
This species of Jacksonia grows on sand over laterite or granite in heathland or woodland between Eneabba and Dryandra in the Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions of south-western Western Australia.
Conservation status
Jacksonia restioides is listed as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.