Templetonia stenophylla
Species of plant
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Templetonia stenophylla, commonly known as leafy templetonia,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a small straggling shrub with yellow flowers with plum-red centre markings.
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Faboideae |
| Genus: | Templetonia |
| Species: | T. stenophylla |
| Binomial name | |
| Templetonia stenophylla | |
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Description
Templetonia stenophylla is a small, straggling shrub to 30 cm (12 in) high. It has narrow-oblong to elliptic leaves, 1–7 cm (0.39–2.76 in) long with a small recurved tip. One or two flowers are borne in leaf axils, 10–12 mm (0.39–0.47 in) long, pale yellow petals with plum-red centre markings, pedicels 4–8 mm (0.16–0.31 in) long. Flowering occurs in spring and the fruit is an oblong pod 15–20 mm (0.59–0.79 in) long.
Naming and taxonomy
This species was first formally described in March 1858 by Ferdinand von Mueller who gave it the name Bossiaea stenophylla in his Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae from a specimen collected by M. Weidenbach[3] of specimens collected near Milton near Port Phillip.[4][5] In 1924, J.M.Black changed the name to Templetonia stenophylla in the Flora of South Australia.[6]
Distribution and habitat
Templetonia stenophylla has a wide distribution, mostly in dry sclerophyll forest. In New South Wales it often grows on river banks.[2]