Dillwynia elegans
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| Dillwynia elegans | |
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| Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, Australia | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Faboideae |
| Genus: | Dillwynia |
| Species: | D. elegans |
| Binomial name | |
| Dillwynia elegans | |
Dillwynia elegans, also known as parrot-pea or eggs and bacon,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern New South Wales. It is an erect shrub with more or less cylindrical, grooved leaves and yellow flowers with red markings.
Dillwynia elegans is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.2–2.0 m (7.9 in – 6 ft 6.7 in) and has stems that are hairy when young but become glabrous later. The leaves are crowded, linear, more or less cylindrical with a longitudinal groove and 5–22 mm (0.20–0.87 in) long. The flowers are arranged in pairs in leaf axils, in clusters near the ends of branches. The flowers are on peduncles with egg-shaped to lance-shaped bracts 1–2 mm (0.039–0.079 in) long and shorter bracteoles. The flowers are yellow with red markings, the sepals 4–7 mm (0.16–0.28 in) long and the standard petal 4–7 mm (0.16–0.28 in) long but much broader.[3][4][5]
Taxonomy
Dillwynia elegans was first formally described in 1839 by Stephan Endlicher in Novarum stirpium decades editae a Museo Caesario Palatino Vindobonensi from a specimen growing in Charles von Hügel's garden.[6][7] The specific epithet (floribunda) means "profusely flowering".[8]
This species is regarded as a synonym of Dillwynia floribunda var. teretifolia (DC.) Blakely by the National Herbarium of New South Wales.[4][6]