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Daviesia nudiflora subsp. hirtella Crisp

Reference
Austral.Syst.Bot. 8:1216 (1995)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Bushy shrub, 0.3-1.5 m high. Fl. orange/yellow & red, Jul to Aug. Gravelly soils. Undulating low rises.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 5 June 1996

Scientific Description

Erect, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, spiny at least in part, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, alternate, continuous with stem, 15-40 mm long, 5-12 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, 3.2-5 mm long, glabrous. Bracteoles absent. Calyx 4-4.5 mm long, not accrescent, glabrous, ribbed; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 8-9.5 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow, red or orange, with some yellow, red or orange spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 8-9 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 6.5-6.7 mm long, not auriculate, keel 6.5-7 mm long, beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.5-0.8 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 4.5-8 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, glabrous; style 6.7-8.5 mm long, glabrous, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), sessile or subsessile, not constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, beaked. Flowers in July and August. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Geraldton Sandplains, Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain IBRA regions.

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain.
IBRA Subregions
Dandaragan Plateau, Geraldton Hills, Lesueur Sandplain, Merredin, Northern Jarrah Forest, Perth.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Carnamah, Coorow, Dandaragan, Irwin, Mingenew, Northampton, Three Springs, Victoria Plains.