Overview
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Interesting Facts
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Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Grey Parrot-Pea
Description
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Physical Description
Habit: Evergreen .
Flowers: Bloom Period: January, February, March. • Flower Color: orange
Size/Age/Growth
Size: 18-24" tall.
Habitat
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 1,176 meters (0 to 3,858 feet).[1]
Biology
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Growth
Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Sun to Partial 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
()
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Dicotyledons
- 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:
Dillwynia
()
- J.E. Smith, 1805
- Specific epithet:
cinerascens
- R.Br.
- Botanical name: - Dillwynia cinerascens R.Br.
- Specific epithet:
cinerascens
- R.Br.
- Genus:
Dillwynia
(
- Tribe:
Mirbelieae
(
- Subfamily:
Papilionoideae
(
- Family:
Leguminosae
(
- Order:
Fabales
(
- Superorder:
Rosanae
(
- Subclass:
Rosidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Name Status: Accepted Name .
Similar Species
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Members of the genus Dillwynia
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 5 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
D. cinerascens (Grey Parrot-Pea) · D. glaberrima (Parrot Pea) · D. hispida (Red Parrot-Pea) · D. juniperina (Prickly Parrot Pea) · D. sericea (Showy Parrot Pea)
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Further Reading
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- Curtis's botanical magazine. 48 1821 London; New York [etc.]: Academic Press [etc.] url , p. 113, p. 45.
- Hooker, J. D. The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. discovery ships Erebus and Terror in the Years 1839-1843: under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross /by Joseph Dalton Hooker. 3 1860 London: Reeve Brothers, 1844-60. url p. lxi.
- Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. Sydney, Linnean Society of New South Wales. url p. 145.
- Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria. Melbourne: The Society, 1889- url p. 244.
- Report of the Australian Association for the advancement of Science. Sidney, The Association. url p. 477.
- Second systematic census of Australian plants, with chronologic, literary and geographic annotations; by Baron Ferdinand von Mueller. Pt. I. --Vasculares. Melbourne: Printed for the Victorian Government by McCarron. Bird & Co., 1889. url p. 64.
- The Bradley bibliography; a guide to the literature of the woody plants of the world published before the beginning of the twentieth century; Cambridge, Riverside Press, 1911-18. url p. 354.
- The Gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement. London: Longman, Rees, Orome, Brown and Green, 1826-1844. url p. 396.
- The Victorian naturalist. [Melbourne]Field Naturalists Club of Victoria. url , p. 100, p. 101, p. 101, p. 108, p. 109, p. 109, p. 113, p. 116, p. 117, p. 125, p. 146, p. 148, p. 155, p. 172, p. 174, p. 63, p. 82, p. 83, p. 85, p. 85, p. 85, p. 94, p. 94, p. 99.
- The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1826-1844. url p. 326.
- Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, Incorporated. Adelaide: The Society, 1880- url p. 61.
Notes
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Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 16, 2012.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2842315
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ILD-18154
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13756511
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:147214-3
- GRIN Nomen Number: 414317
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 418306
Footnotes
- Mean = 207.680 meters (681.365 feet), Standard Deviation = 230.710 based on 136 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
