Daviesia smithiorum Crisp

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, continuous with stem, 15-120 mm long, 0.8-1.5 mm wide, glabrous, terete; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules apparently absent even from the youngest leaves. Pedicel present, 3-4 mm long, glabrous. Bracteoles absent. Calyx 3-3.4 mm long, not accrescent, glabrous, ribbed; pustules or glands absent. Corolla uniformly coloured or multicoloured, yellow, mostly yellow, red or orange, with some yellow, red or orange spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 6-8 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 5.5-6.7 mm long, not auriculate, keel 5.2-6.3 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), 4.5-6 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, glabrous; style 6.5-7 mm long, glabrous, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), 15-17 mm long, 10-12 mm wide, sessile or subsessile, not constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, glabrous, beaked. Flowers in July. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Avon Wheatbelt IBRA regions. Conservation Code Priority Two (P2).