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Daviesia major (Benth.) Crisp

Reference
Austral.Syst.Bot. 8:1208 (1995)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Bushy & intricate or diffuse & spreading shrub, 0.25-1 m high. Fl. orange & red, Aug to Sep. White or grey sand, sandy loam. Flats.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 5 June 1996

Scientific Description

Erect or 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, continuous with stem, 10-220 mm long, 1-1.8 mm wide, glabrous, terete; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules apparently absent even from the youngest leaves. Pedicel present, 2-3.5 mm long, glabrous. Bracteoles absent. Calyx 5-6.5 mm long, not accrescent, glabrous, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 9-11 mm long, multicoloured, mostly red or orange, with some red or orange spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 8-10 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 7-8 mm long, not auriculate, keel 6-7.5 mm long, beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.4-0.5 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 4.7-5.8 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, glabrous; style 5.5-6 mm long, glabrous, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), 14-15 mm long, 9-10 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 Mallee, Esperance and Swan Coastal Plain IBRA regions.

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Esperance Plains, Mallee, Swan Coastal Plain.
IBRA Subregions
Eastern Mallee, Perth, Recherche.
IMCRA Regions
WA South Coast.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Busselton, Esperance, Ravensthorpe.