Western Australia FloraFlora Index Acacia glaucoptera (Flat Wattle) Anigozanthos (Kangaroo Paws) Banksia carlinoides Conostylis argentea Daviesia pachyphylla (Ouch Bush) Exocarpos sparteus Gompholobium cyaninum Kingia australis Lechenaultia formosa (Red Leschenaultia) Mesembryanthemum crystallinum Wurmbea tenella (Eight Nancy)
Daviesia pachyphylla is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, a slender often open-spreading shrub that is endemic to the south of Western Australia, near Esperance and the Eastern Wheatbelt region.
Commonly known as “Ouch Bush”, with the crowded, sharply-pointed, narrowly conical phyllodes, along the arching branchlets. These swollen succulent leaves are about 2.5 cm long and as thick as a pencil. The winter pea-shaped flowers are yellow to orange and dark reddish in colour.
It is named after Hugh Davies, a Welsh botanist. Pachy = thick, phyllus = leaved. The specific epithet (pachyphylla) means “thick-leaved”.
- Scientific Classification
- Kingdom: Plantae
- Phylum: Charophyta
- Class: Equisetopsida
- Subclass: Magnoliidae
- Superorder: Rosanae
- Order: Fabales
- Family: Fabaceae
- Genus: Daviesia
- Species: Daviesia pachyphylla
Footnote & References
- Photographs © Terry Dunham
- Daviesia pachyphylla F.Muell., Ouch Bush, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/Daviesia pachyphylla
- Daviesia pachyphylla F.Muell., Ouch Bush, Western Australian Herbarium (1998–). Florabase—the Western Australian Flora. Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, https://florabase.dbca.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/3830
Western Australia FloraFlora Index Acacia glaucoptera (Flat Wattle) Anigozanthos (Kangaroo Paws) Banksia carlinoides Conostylis argentea Daviesia pachyphylla (Ouch Bush) Exocarpos sparteus Gompholobium cyaninum Kingia australis Lechenaultia formosa (Red Leschenaultia) Mesembryanthemum crystallinum Wurmbea tenella (Eight Nancy)
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