Daviesia angulata Lindl.

Scientific Description

Erect or prostrate,spreading or scrambling, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, not spiny, glabrous; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, alternate, not continuous with stem, 10-22 mm long, 1-2.3 mm wide, glabrous, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules apparently absent even from the youngest leaves. Pedicel present, 2.5-3 mm long, glabrous. Bracteoles absent. Calyx 1.5-3 mm long, not accrescent, glabrous, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 5.5-10 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow or red, with some yellow or red spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 5-7 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 5.5-7 mm long, not auriculate, keel 4.5-9 mm long, beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.5-0.7 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 4-6 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, glabrous; style 5.8-8 mm long, glabrous, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), 10-14 mm long, 7-9 mm wide, sessile or subsessile, not constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, glabrous, beaked. Flowers in March, April, May, June, July, August and September. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Geraldton Sandplains, Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Esperance and Swan Coastal Plain IBRA regions.