Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Daviesia schwarzenegger
Fabaceae Lindl.
Daviesia schwarzenegger Crisp & L.G.Cook , legitimate, scientific
Crisp, M.D., Cayzer, L., Chandler, G.R. & Cook, L.G. (2017), A monograph of Daviesia (Mirbelieae, Faboideae, Fabaceae). Phytotaxa 300(1): 168-170, Fig. 74A, B APC [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "[approximate locality data given because the species is rare]: New South Wales, W of West Wyalong, 33°50’S, 147°00’E, M.D. Crisp 11747, 7 September 2016. Holotype: CANB 893045; isotype: NSW."
pro parte misapplication: Daviesia benthamii subsp. humilis Crisp legitimate by Crisp, M.D. (1982), Notes on Daviesia and Pultenaea (Fabaceae) in South Australia. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 6(1): 60, fig. 3, map 2 pro parte misapplication: Daviesia benthamii subsp. humilis Crisp legitimate by Crisp, M.D. (22 December 1995), Contributions toward a revision of Daviesia (Fabaceae: Mirbelieae). III. A synopsis of the genus. Australian Systematic Botany 8(6): 1176 pro parte misapplication: Daviesia benthamii subsp. humilis Crisp legitimate by Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Fabaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 761, Fig. 153g pro parte misapplication: Daviesia benthamii subsp. humilis Crisp legitimate by Crisp, M.D. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Daviesia. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 2: 524 pro parte misapplication: Daviesia benthamii subsp. humilis Crisp legitimate by Craigie, A.I. in Kellermann, J. (ed.) (2015), Fabaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 5: 29
  • APC Dist.: SA, NSW, Vic
  • Etymology: "Surprisingly, DNA sequence data showed D. benthamii subsp. humilis to comprise two cryptic species that are more closely related to other species than to D. benthamii... As they are unexpected and unlikely ‘twins’, we have named them after the actors who played an unlikely pair of twins in the eponymous Hollywood movie: Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito. We have named this species after Schwarzenegger because he is much more robust than his twin: ‘The embryo did split in two, but it didn't split equally. All the purity and strength went into Julius [Schwarzenegger’s character]’. This difference between the actors parallels the growth habit difference between the two Daviesia species. We also wish to honour Arnold Schwarzenegger’s leadership (as governor of California) in pioneering the reduction of carbon emissions, and for advising the Australian government to do the same (Anonymous 2015 [i.e.The Guardian Australia accessed 31 July 2016])."