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Dillwynia laxiflora Benth.

Reference
Endl., Bot.Arch.(Hugel) 1:Tab.9 (1837)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Spreading shrub, to 1.25 m high. Fl. yellow & red, Oct. Yellow gravelly sand, red-brown gravel. Crests of hills.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 13 April 2007
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Scientific Description

Prostrate,spreading or scrambling, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, spiny at least in part, glabrous; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, alternate, not continuous with stem, 3.6-8 mm long, 0.5-0.8 mm wide, glabrous, terete; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules apparently absent even from the youngest leaves. Pedicel present, 3.5-4 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present but early deciduous. Calyx 3.5-5 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 7.2-11 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow or red, with some yellow or red spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 8.5-10 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 7-7.5 mm long, not auriculate, keel 5-6 mm long, not beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.4-0.6 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 2.5-4 mm long. Ovary hairy or glandular; style 1.5-1.8 mm long, hairy or glandular towards the base, not bearded, terete. Fruit not constricted between the seeds, round in cross-section, not beaked. Flowers in October. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Warren, Esperance and Swan Coastal Plain IBRA regions.

C. Hollister and K.R. Thiele, 24 October 2023

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Swan Coastal Plain, Warren.
IBRA Subregions
Dandaragan Plateau, Fitzgerald, Katanning, Northern Jarrah Forest, Perth, Southern Jarrah Forest, Warren, Western Mallee.
IMCRA Regions
Leeuwin-Naturaliste.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Armadale, Augusta Margaret River, Beverley, Boddington, Boyup Brook, Bridgetown-Greenbushes, Brookton, Broomehill-Tambellup, Busselton, Chittering, Collie, Cranbrook, Cuballing, Denmark, Dumbleyung, Gingin, Goomalling, Harvey, Kalamunda, Katanning, Kojonup, Lake Grace, Manjimup, Mundaring, Murray, Narrogin, Northam, Perth, Pingelly, Plantagenet, Serpentine-Jarrahdale, Swan, Toodyay, Victoria Plains, Wagin, Wandering, Waroona, West Arthur, Wickepin, Williams, Woodanilling, York.