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Common Aotus

Aotus ericoides

Common Aotus
Photo: Melburnian, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
SE. Queensland to Tasmania
Climate
subtropical

About

Aotus ericoides, also known as common aotus or golden pea, is a shrub in the family Fabaceae. It flowers in leaf axils in spring and has yellow pea flowers with splotches of red. It is endemic to eastern Australia.

Where it grows

It occurs in heathland and dry sclerophyll forests on sandstone in Queensland, South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania. In New South Wales it is found on the coast and Southern Highlands.

Other Aotus plants

Aotus gracillima · Aotus

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Aotus ericoides by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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