Templetonia drummondii
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| Templetonia drummondii | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Faboideae |
| Genus: | Templetonia |
| Species: | T. drummondii |
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| Templetonia drummondii | |
Templetonia drummondii is a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is an upright, broom-like shrub with mostly yellow pea flowers.
Templetonia drummondii is a small glabrous understory shrub with numerous prostrate stems up to 30 cm (12 in) long, stems with parallel ridges and more or less terete. Leaves have dense hairs in leaf axils, petiole up to 5 mm (0.20 in) long, lower leaves oval to almost egg-shaped, upper leaves larger, glabrous, pointed at the apex and veined on the lower surface The flowers are borne singly in leaf axils on pedicels up to 7.5 mm (0.30 in) long, upper lobes joined, lowest lobe longer, brownish or purple yellow, wings up to 10.5 mm (0.41 in) long. Flowering occurs from August to September and the fruit is a pod 1.8–2.8 cm (0.71–1.10 in) long and 0.85–1 cm (0.33–0.39 in) wide.[2]