Podolobium
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Podolobium is a genus
of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae
, commonly known as Shaggy Peas. The genus is native to eastern Australia
. It may be synonymous with the genus Oxylobium
.
Species include:
The species was first formally described by botanist Robert Brown
in Hortus Kewensis
in 1811.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae
Fabaceae
The Fabaceae or Leguminosae, commonly known as the legume, pea, or bean family, is a large and economically important family of flowering plants. The group is the third largest land plant family, behind only the Orchidaceae and Asteraceae, with 730 genera and over 19,400 species...
, commonly known as Shaggy Peas. The genus is native to eastern Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
. It may be synonymous with the genus Oxylobium
Oxylobium
Oxylobium , also known as Shaggy Pea, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae . The genus is native to Australia.Species include:*Oxylobium aciculiferum Benth....
.
Species include:
- Podolobium aciculiferum F.Muell. - Needle Shaggy-pea
- Podolobium aestivum Crisp & P.H.Weston
- Podolobium alpestrePodolobium alpestrePodolobium alpestre is a shrub which is native to south-eastern Australia . The species is a member of the family Fabaceae and of the genus Podolobium. It grows up to 1.3 metres high The leaves are 10 to 40 mm long, 3 to 10 mm wide...
(F.Muell.) Crisp & P.H.Weston - Alpine Shaggy-pea - Podolobium ilicifoliumPodolobium ilicifoliumPodolobium ilicifolium, the Prickly Shaggy-pea is a shrub found in eastern and southern Australia. A common plant, found in dry or moist eucalyptus forest, often on clay or sandstone based soils. Growing to three metres tall....
(Andrews) Crisp & P.H.Weston - Prickly Shaggy-pea - Podolobium procumbens (F.Muell.) F.Muell. ex Crisp & P.H.Weston - Trailing Shaggy-pea
- Podolobium scandens (Sm.) DC. - Netted Shaggy-pea
The species was first formally described by botanist Robert Brown
Robert Brown (botanist)
Robert Brown was a Scottish botanist and palaeobotanist who made important contributions to botany largely through his pioneering use of the microscope...
in Hortus Kewensis
Hortus Kewensis
Hortus Kewensis, or a Catalogue of the Plants Cultivated in the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew by William Aiton was a 1789 catalogue of all the plant species then in cultivation at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, which constituted the vast majority of plant species in cultivation in all of England...
in 1811.