Species profile—Daviesia quoquoversus
Classification
Plantae (plants) → Equisetopsida (land plants) → Leguminosae → Daviesia quoquoversus
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Plantae (plants)
- Class
- Equisetopsida (land plants)
- Family
- Leguminosae
- Scientific name
- Daviesia quoquoversus Crisp
- WildNet taxon ID
- 8899
- Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
- Vulnerable
- Conservation significant
- Yes
- Confidential
- No
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Nil
- Short Notes
- BRI 182058, status annotated by author
- Description
- Daviesia quoquoversus is a spreading shrub growing to 2 m high. The branchlets are arching, terete, hispid and ribbed. The phyllodes are spirally arranged along a branchlet. The green phyllodes are divaricate or reclinate, ovate, broad-ovate or cordiform in shape, long-acuminate and pungent at the apex, cordate or truncate at the base, 6 to 9 mm long and 4 to 11 mm wide and green. The mid-rib on the upper phyllode surface is prominent. The venation on the phyllodes is reticulate and usually conspicuous.
The inflorescences occur as racemes with 1 to 2 per axil. The bracts are ascending, broad-to very broad-obovate, with the uppermost bracts 0.3 to 0.5mm long and 0.3 to 0.6 mm broad. The pedicels are 3.1 to 6.2mm long. The flowers are of a typical pea form with a large petal at the back (the standard), two smaller lateral petals (wings) and two inner petals fused together to form the keel, and are 3.1 to 6.2 mm long. The green calyx is 2.8 to 3.1 mm long. The petals are yellow with red markings. The standard is shaped like an ellipse, 5.8 to 6.0 mm by 6.0 to 6.2 mm. The wings are 5.5 to 5.8 mm long by 2.3 to 2.5 mm wide. The sickle shaped keel at the base of the flower is 5.8 to 6.0mm long by 1.4 to 1.5 mm wide. The seed pods are flat, roughly triangular in shape and 9 to 10 mm long by 6 to 7 mm wide (Crisp, 1990; Barker, 1999)
Daviesia quoquoversus appears to be closely related to D. villifera, with which it shares a distinctive beaked, falcate keel-petal. However, D. villifera differs in bearing a hispid indumentum of straight hairs which are usually abundant all over the vegetative parts, including the lamina of the phyllode. Daviesia squarrosa and D. nova-anglica, although possessing a different shaped keel, have a glabrous phyllode lamina, like that of D. quoquoversus. In those species, however, the hairs are straight, quite unlike the bent and twisted hairs of D. quoquoversus (Crisp, 1990; Barker, 199). - Map
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- Distribution
- Daviesia quoquoversus is restricted to south-east Queensland where it is only found on Blackdown Tableland, south of Dingo. The species is conserved within Blackdown Tableland National Park (Queensland Herbarium, 2012).
- Distributional limits
- -23.7747222, 149.0516666
-28.6102778, 151.2169445 - Range derivation
- Range derived from extent of the taxon's verified records
- Habitat
- Daviesia quoquoversus occurs in open forest on sandy soil derived from sandstone. It has been recorded with Corymbia peltata, C. polycarpa, Eucalyptus baileyana and sclerophyllous shrubs and grasses (Banksia, Ricinocarpos and spinifex grasses) (Queensland Herbarium, 2012).
- Reproduction
- Little is known about the biology and ecology of this species. It flowers from July to September and its fruiting period is from September (Queensland Herbarium, 2012).
- Threatening processes
- There are no current threatening processes for Daviesia quoquoversus. Current possible threatening processes include inappropriate fire regimes and disturbance of habitat by weeds (e.g. lantana) (Barker, 1995).
- Status notes
- Daviesia quoquoversus is listed as Vulnerable under the Queensland Nature Conservation Act 1992.
- Management recommendations
- Management recommendations for Daviesia quoquoversus include: fire management to maintain intervals between fires longer than the minimum age at which the plants set seed, and; control or eradicate weeds, particularly lantana on sites where D. quoquoversus occurs (Barker, 1995).
- Notes
- Occurs in the following Queensland pastoral district: Leichhardt.
- References
- Barker, M. (1995). Daviesia quoquoversus Species Management Profile, Department of Natural Resources, Queensland.
Crisp, M.D. (1990). Contributions to a revision of Daviesia Smith (Fabaceae: Mirbelieae): I. The D. squarrosa group. Australian Systematic Botany 3 (2): 249.
Queensland Herbarium (2012). Specimen label information, in BriMapper version 3.5.3. Queensland Herbarium. Accessed 24/02/2012. - Profile author
- Lynise Wearne (29/03/2012)
Other resources
Data source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0.
https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=8899.
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
