Daviesia ulicifolia subsp. aridicola G.Chandler & 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, 15-35 mm long, 3-4 mm wide, glabrous, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules apparently absent even from the youngest leaves. Pedicel present, 3.5-4.5 mm long, glabrous. Bracteoles absent. Calyx 4-4.5 mm long, not accrescent, glabrous, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 6 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow, red or orange, with some yellow, red or orange spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 5 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 4.5 mm long, not auriculate, keel 4.3 mm long, beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.2 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 3-4 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, glabrous; style 5 mm long, glabrous, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), 10 mm long, 7 mm wide, sessile or subsessile, not constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, glabrous, beaked. Flowers in August, September and October. Occurs in the Eremaean Botanical Province, in the Murchison and Great Victorian Desert IBRA regions.