Daviesia cunderdin Crisp & G.Chandler

Scientific Description

Erect, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete or angular, spiny at least in part, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, alternate, continuous with stem, 10-20 mm long, 5-8 mm wide, hairy, with simple hairs, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules apparently absent even from the youngest leaves. Pedicel present, 4-4.2 mm long, glabrous. Bracteoles absent. Calyx 7-7.8 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribbed; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 14-16 mm long, uniformly coloured, red; claws present; standard 12.5-13.5 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 11.5-14 mm long, auriculate, keel 12-13.5 mm long, beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.7-1.2 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 9-11 mm long. Ovary stipitate, glabrous; style 14-15 mm long, glabrous, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), stipitate or sessile or subsessile, not constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, beaked. Flowers in May. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Avon Wheatbelt IBRA regions. Conservation Code Threatened (T).