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Daviesia oxylobium Crisp

Reference
Austral.Syst.Bot. 8:1218-1220,Fig.26 (1995)
Conservation Code
Priority Four
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Glaucous shrub, 0.5-1 m high. Fl. yellow & red & pink, Jul to Aug. Sandy lateritic soils. Undulating plains.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 5 June 1996
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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, simple, alternate, not continuous with stem, 20-100 mm long, 1.5-2 mm wide, glabrous, terete; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules apparently absent even from the youngest leaves. Pedicel present, 2.6-9 mm long, glabrous. Bracteoles absent. Calyx 3.2-4 mm long, not accrescent, glabrous, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 6-8 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow, pink or red, with some yellow, pink or red spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 5-5.5 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, not auriculate, keel 4.5-4.6 mm long, beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.3-0.4 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 4-4.5 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, glabrous; style 4.8-5 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 Avon Wheatbelt and Jarrah Forest IBRA regions. Conservation Code Priority Four (P4).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest.
IBRA Subregions
Katanning, Merredin, Northern Jarrah Forest.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Bruce Rock, Corrigin, Cunderdin, Kellerberrin, Mundaring, Quairading, Tammin.