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n. - Genus of yellow-flowered Australian unarmed or spiny shrubs without true leaves but having leaflike stems or branches.

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Usage examples (5)
  • Leptospermum; Persoonia with lanceolate pubescent leaf; Jacksonia
  • Not a mile farther we came on a second creek, with running water, which, from the number of Dogwood shrubs (Jacksonia), in the full glory of their golden blossoms.
  • Farther on, the country opened, the scrub receded; Ironbark ridges here and there, with spotted gum, with dog-wood (Jacksonia) on a sandy soil, covered with flint...
  • Jacksonia ramosissima, BENTH.
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