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Jacksonia thesioides

Jacksonia thesioides
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
Queensland
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Jacksonia thesioides is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Queensland. It is an erect to prostrate shrub with dull green branches, the end branches sharply-pointed cladodes, leaves reduced to dark brown, egg-shaped scales with sharply-pointed tips, hot pink to mauve flowers, sometimes with red markings, arranged along the branches, and woody, densely hairy, elliptic pods.

Where it grows

This species of Jacksonia grows in woodland in sandy soil over granite or sandstone in north-eastern Queensland, south to Townsville and on Torres Strait Islands.

Other Jacksonia plants

Jacksonia acicularis · Jacksonia aculeata · Jacksonia alata · Jacksonia angulata · Jacksonia anthoclada · Jacksonia arenicola · Jacksonia argentea · Jacksonia arida · Jacksonia arnhemica · Jacksonia calcicola · Jacksonia calycina · Jacksonia capitata

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Jacksonia thesioides 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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