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Daviesia glossosema Crisp

Reference
Austral.Syst.Bot. 8:1194,Fig.15 (1995)
Conservation Code
Threatened
A taxon name retains its ‘Threatened’ status until a new name has been officially endorsed and appears in the Gazettal Notice.
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Intricate shrub, ca 0.5 m high. Fl. red-brown, Nov. Gravelly sand.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 4 June 1996
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Scientific Description

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. Corolla with some cream spots, streaks or blotches. 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).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Esperance Plains.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzgerald.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Gnowangerup, Plantagenet.