Oxylobium

Location & distribution maps

Common name:         Shaggy Peas

Conservation status: . . .

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Flowers:

• The pea-flowers yellow, orange or yellow-red, borne in leaf axils or at the end of branches

• Flowering usually occurs in spring

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Leaves:         

• The leaves are mostly opposite or whorled, occasionally alternate

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Habit:        

• Oxylobium range in size from prostrate to short, upright shrubs, mostly with simple, hairy stems especially when young

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Additional notes:     

• Taxonomy

  • The genus Oxylobium was first formally described by Henry Cranke Andrews in 1807, the description was published in The Botanist's Repository for New, and Rare Plants and the type specimen was Oxylobium cordifolium

• Species

  • The following is a list of species of Oxylobium accepted by the Australian Plant Census:

    • Oxylobium arborescens R.Br.—tall shaggy pea

    • Oxylobium cordifolium Andrews

    • Oxylobium ellipticum (Vent.) R.Br.—common shaggy pea, golden shaggy pea

    • Oxylobium pulteneae DC.—wiry shaggy pea

    • Oxylobium robustum J.Thompson

Sources of information:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxylobium (2024)