Family: Fabaceae-Faboideae
Plant: A slender erect shrub up to 50cm high with angular stems. Not a common plant.
Flowers: Large pink to purple-lilac pea flowers 6-8mm long. The flowers are mostly solitary in the leaf axils.
Flowering: July-October.
Fruit: Ovoid pod up to 1.5cm long with a sharply pointed tip.
Leaves: Irregular whorls of 3 leaves with linear leaflets 1-3cm long and 1mm wide with pointed tips and revolute margins.
Habitat: Dry sclerophyll forest and heathland.
Features: 3-whorled leaves. Pink to purple pea flowers.
Name:
Mirbella After the French botanist C. F. B. Mirbel
speciosa From Latin = showy (referring to its flowers)
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Type |
Shrub |
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Flowers |
Form |
Irregular, Pea, Single |
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Colour(s) |
Pink, Purple |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
4, 5 |
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Flowering Month |
7, 8, 9, 10 |
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Fruit |
Type |
Pod |
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Colour |
Grey, Brown |
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Other Features |
- |
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Leaves |
Arrangement |
Opposite, Whorled |
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Type |
Simple |
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Shape |
Linear |
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Length |
Short |
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Margins |
Entire |
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Attachment |
Unstalked |
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Other Features |
Tapered-tip |
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Bark |
- |
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Habitat |
Dry sclerophyll forest, Heathland |
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