Daviesia schwarzenegger
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Daviesia schwarzenegger is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is a dense, mounded shrub with sharply-pointed phyllodes and yellow and dark red flowers, and resembles Daviesia devito apart from its more robust growth habit and the surface of its dried foliage.
Description
Daviesia schwarzenegger is a dense, mounded shrub that typically grows up to {{cvt|1.3|m}} high and {{cvt|3|m}} wide, has glabrous foliage and forms root suckers. Its leaves are reduced to scattered, sharply-pointed, cylindrical phyllodes {{cvt|10–25|mm}} long and {{cvt|1–2|mm}} wide at the base. The branchlets and phyllodes are ribbed when dry, unlike those of D. devito that are wrinkled. The flowers are arranged in racemes of two to four on a rachis {{cvt|1–5|mm}} long, each flower on a pedicel about {{cvt|1|mm}} long with overlapping bracts at the base. The sepals are joined, forming a bell-shaped base and the standard is yellow to red with a yellowish green centre, {{cvt|3–4|mm}} long and about {{cvt|4|mm}} wide. The wings are dark red with orange tips, about {{cvt|4|mm}} long and the keel is dark red and about {{cvt|4|mm}} long. Flowering occurs in September and October and the fruit is a broadly triangular pod {{cvt|5–7|mm}} long.{{cite journal |last1=Crisp |first1=Michael D. |last2=Cayzer |first2=Lindy |last3=Chandler |first3=Gregory T. |last4=Cook |first4=Lyn G. |title=A monograph of Daviesia (Mirbelieae, Faboideae, Fabaceae) |journal=Phytotaxa |date=2017 |volume=300 |issue=1 |pages=168–170 |doi=10.11646/phytotaxa.300.1.1|doi-access=free }}{{cite web |last1=Walsh |first1=Neville |last2=Stajsic |first2=Val |title=Deviesia schwarzenegger |url=https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/00b93b92-a806-48c0-8a03-819badc704ae |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria |access-date=4 December 2021}}
Taxonomy and naming
In 1982, Michael Crisp described Daviesia benthamii subsp. humilis in the Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens,{{cite web|title=Daviesia benthamii subsp. humilis|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/499339 |publisher=APNI|access-date=4 December 2021}}{{cite journal |last1=Crisp |first1=Michael |title=Notes on Daviesia and Pultenaea (Fabaceae) in South Australia |journal=Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens |date=1982 |volume=6 |issue=1 |page=60 |url=https://data.environment.sa.gov.au/Content/Publications/JABG06P055_Crisp.pdf |access-date=4 December 2021}} but in 2017, he and others divided that subspecies into two new species, D. schwarzenegger and D. devito in the journal Phytotaxa.{{cite web|title=Daviesia schwarzenegger|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/8914298 |publisher=APNI|access-date=4 December 2021}} The specific epithets (devito and schwarzenegger) are references to Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger, the main actors in the Universal Studios 1988 film Twins, D. devito being the less vigorous of the two. The authors also acknowledged Schwarzenegger's "pioneering the reduction of carbon emissions and for advising the Australian government to do the same".{{cite news |last1=Evans |first1=Jake |title=Twin plants named after Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito following DNA discovery |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-28/twin-plants-named-after-arnold-schwarzenegger-danny-devito/8477576 |access-date=4 December 2021 |agency=Australian Broadcasting Corporation |date=28 April 2017}}
Distribution and habitat
Daviesia schwarzenegger grows in mallee and woodland in scattered populations from the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia, to the area between Charlton and Rushworth in Victoria, and to near Condobolin in New South Wales.