Daviesia campephylla Crisp

Scientific Description

Prostrate,spreading or scrambling, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, not spiny, glabrous; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, alternate, not continuous with stem, 10-20 mm long, 1.5-2 mm wide, glabrous, flat with flat margins; margins lobed; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules apparently absent even from the youngest leaves. Pedicel present, 1.5-3.5 mm long, glabrous. Bracteoles absent. Calyx 4.5-6 mm long, not accrescent, glabrous, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 8.5-9 mm long, uniformly coloured, yellow; claws present; standard 7.2-8 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 6.5-6.8 mm long, not auriculate, keel 6-6.5 mm long, beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 4.5-5.5 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, glabrous; style 6-9.5 mm long, glabrous, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), sessile or subsessile, not constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, beaked. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Mallee IBRA regions.