Interesting Facts
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Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Box-Leaf Bitter-Pea
Description
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Physical Description
Habit: Evergreen .
Flowers: Bloom Period: April, May. • Flower Color: gold, yellow-orange
Size/Age/Growth
Size: 36-48" tall.
Habitat
Typically found in water with a depth of 0 to -43 meters (0 to -141 feet).[1]
Biome: Marine .
Biology
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Growth
Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Light Shade.
Taxonomy
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- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Subclass:
Rosidae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Rosanae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Order:
Fabales
()
- Bromhead, 1838
- Family:
Leguminosae
()
- A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons.
- Subfamily:
Papilionoideae
()
- Tribe:
Mirbelieae
()
- Genus:
Daviesia
()
- J.E. Smith, 1798
- Specific epithet:
buxifolia
- Benth.
- Botanical name: - Daviesia buxifolia Benth.
- Specific epithet:
buxifolia
- Benth.
- Genus:
Daviesia
(
- Tribe:
Mirbelieae
(
- Subfamily:
Papilionoideae
(
- Family:
Leguminosae
(
- Order:
Fabales
(
- Superorder:
Rosanae
(
- Subclass:
Rosidae
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Name Status: Accepted Name .
Similar Species
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Members of the genus Daviesia
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 6 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
D. brevifolia (Leafless Bitter-Pea) · D. buxifolia (Box-Leaf Bitter-Pea) · D. corymbosa (Clustered Bitter-Pea) · D. latifolia (Bitter Leaf) · D. pectinata (Thorny Bitter-Pea) · D. ulicifolia (Gorse Bitter-Pea)
More Info
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Further Reading
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- The Victorian naturalist. [Melbourne]Field Naturalists Club of Victoria. url p. 26, p. 28.
- Transactions and proceedings of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh. [Edinburgh]: The Society, 1891-1970. url p. 357.
Notes
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Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 16, 2012.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed January 27, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
- ILDIS World Database of Legumes. Release date: May 1, 2007
- Nghia, N.H. 1998. Dalbergia entadoides. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 20 October 2006.
- Nielsen IC & Rico ML, 1994 (from ILDIS).
- Pippen, Jeffrey S. Jeff's Nature Page. Accessed December 8, 2007.
- Podlech D, 1996 (from ILDIS).
- Polhill RM, 1993 (from ILDIS).
- Rhytismatales database 2006.
- Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
- Schrire BD, 1994-10 (from ILDIS).
- Sokoloff DD, 2001-03 (from ILDIS).
- Stirton CH, 2001-06 (from ILDIS).
- The Global Lepidoptera Names Index2, 12.2, 2005.
- The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Jan 19, 2007.
- The Virtual Field Herbarium.
- Thomson, Christian (from Diptera).
- USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL (May 05, 2008)
- USDA, NRCS. 2005. The PLANTS Database, Version 3.5 (http://plants.usda.gov). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA.
- Vaz AMSF, 2001-05 (from ILDIS).
- World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. Adenanthera intermedia. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 20 October 2006.
- van der Maesen LJG, 1993 (from ILDIS).
- van der Maesen, LJG, 2001-03 (from ILDIS).
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal January 28, 2008:
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2841870
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ILD-17662
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13809567
- GRIN Nomen Number: 436056
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 417786
Footnotes
- Mean = 56.210 meters (184.416 feet), Standard Deviation = 257.850 based on 63 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
