Daviesia microcarpa 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, simple, alternate, not continuous with stem, 10-14 mm long, 0.5(-1) mm wide, glabrous, terete; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules apparently absent even from the youngest leaves. Pedicel present, 0.5-1.5 mm long, glabrous. Bracteoles absent. Calyx 2.5-3 mm long, not accrescent, glabrous, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 4.5-5.2 mm long, multicoloured, mostly red or orange, with some red or orange spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 4-4.2 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 4-4.3 mm long, not auriculate, keel 3.8-4.2 mm long, beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.2-0.3 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 3.5-4.3 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, glabrous; style 4.2-5 mm long, glabrous, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), 6-8 mm long, 3-4.5 mm wide, sessile or subsessile, not constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, glabrous, beaked. Flowers in September. Occurs in the Eremaean Botanical Province, in the Coolgardie IBRA regions. Conservation Code Threatened (T).