Daviesia pseudaphylla 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, 35-170 mm long, 1-2 mm wide, glabrous, terete; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules apparently absent even from the youngest leaves. Pedicel present, 3.5 mm long, glabrous. Bracteoles absent. Calyx 4 mm long, not accrescent, glabrous, ribbed; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 10 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow, red or orange, with some yellow, red or orange spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 8.2 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 7.4 mm long, not auriculate, keel 6 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), 5.5-6 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, glabrous; style 5.5 mm long, glabrous, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), 20 mm long, 8 mm wide, sessile or subsessile, not constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, glabrous, beaked. Flowers in August and September. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Esperance IBRA regions. Conservation Code Threatened (T).