Plants → Magnoliophyta → Magnoliopsida → Fabales → Fabaceae Lindl. → Daviesia Sm. → Daviesia glossosema Crisp
Intricate shrub, ca 0.5 m high. Fl. red-brown, Nov. Gravelly sand.
Beard’s Provinces: South-West Province.
IBRA Regions: Esperance Plains.
IBRA Subregions: Fitzgerald.
Local Government Areas (LGAs): Gnowangerup, Plantagenet.
Erect, 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, 8-55 mm long, 1.5-2 mm wide, glabrous; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules apparently absent even from the youngest leaves. Bracteoles absent. Stamens ten; filaments free (or united at the very base). Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), 18-25 mm long, 14-20 mm wide, not constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, glabrous, beaked. Flowers in November. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Esperance IBRA regions. Conservation Code Threatened (T).
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