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Daviesia chapmanii Crisp

Reference
Austral.Syst.Bot. 8:1181,Fig.9 (1995)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect, dense & compact, pungent shrub, 0.3-0.8 m high. Fl. yellow & red, Apr to May. Sandy lateritic soils. Plains, breakaways, hills.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 17 September 1999
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Scientific Description

Erect, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, spiny at least in part, glabrous; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, alternate, not continuous with stem, 10-12 mm long, 3-5 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, 5.5-8 mm long, glabrous. Bracteoles absent. Calyx 2-4 mm long, not accrescent, glabrous, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 9-10 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow or red, with some yellow or red spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 8-8.5 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 6-8 mm long, not auriculate, keel 6-8.5 mm long, beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.3-0.4 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short), 7-9 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, glabrous; style 10-10.5 mm long, glabrous, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), 14-15 mm long, 8-10 mm wide, sessile or subsessile, not constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, glabrous, beaked. Flowers in April and May. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Geraldton Sandplains and Avon Wheatbelt IBRA regions.

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains.
IBRA Subregions
Lesueur Sandplain, Merredin.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Carnamah, Coorow, Dandaragan.