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Jacksonia venosa

Jacksonia venosa
Photo: Peter Ollerenshaw, CC BY 3.0
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
Western Australia
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Jacksonia venosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is a low, spreading, tufted shrub with greyish-green branches, the end branches sharply-pointed cladodes, leaves reduced to dark brown, egg-shaped scales, yellow-orange to orange flowers with red marking scattered along the branches, and membranous, more or less glabrous, flattened pods.

Where it grows

This species of Jacksonia grows in shrubland on sand near the south coast of Western Australia between West River and Israelite Bay in the Esperance Plains and Mallee bioregions.

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 venosa 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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