- IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
- urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77162245-1
- Publication
- Phytotaxa
- Collation
- 300(1): 168
- Date of Publication
- 24 Mar 2017
- Family as entered in IPNI
- Leguminosae
Type Information
- Collector Team
- M.D.Crisp 11747
- Locality
- New South Wales: W of West Wyalong
- Collection Date
- 7 Sep 2016
- Type Herbaria
- holotype CANB 893045
isotype NSW - Latitude
- 33° 50' S
- Longitude
- 147° E
- Distribution Of Types
- New South Wales (New South Wales, Australia, Australasia)
South Australia (Australia, Australasia)
Victoria (Australia, Australasia)
Nomenclatural Notes
[epublished]
Remarks
doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.300.1.1 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 (see details under Affinity below). 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