Fabaceae tribe Mirbelieae

Erichsenia

 

Erichsenia Hemsl. (1905), Hooker's Icon. Pl. 28, t. 2777.


1 sp., E. uncinata Hemsl.
F. Erichsen, engineer on the Western Australian goldfields water scheme.
South-western Australia (wheatbelt).
In heath on lateritic soils.
B.J.Grieve (1998), How to Know Western Australian Wildflowers, ed. 2, 2, 396.
Diffuse shrub with hooked phyllodes, striped calyx and small ornate pod. Related to Daviesia and Viminaria within the giant antipodals group.

© M. Crisp

Erichsenia uncinata, © M. Crisp

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