Daviesia divaricata Benth. subsp. divaricata
Marno

Scientific Description

Erect or prostrate,spreading or scrambling, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete or flattened, not spiny, glabrous; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades absent or apparently so (reduced to scales), alternate, not continuous with stem, glabrous, flat with incurved margins (conduplicate); margins entire; tubercles absent, 1; pustules or glands absent. Stipules apparently absent even from the youngest leaves. Pedicel present, 4.5-6.5 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles absent. Calyx 2.8-4.5 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribbed; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 7.5-10 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow, red, orange or purple, with some yellow, red, orange or purple spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 6.4-9.5 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 5.3-7 mm long, not auriculate, keel 6-6.5 mm long, not beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.5-0.7 mm long; filaments free (or united at the very base), 5-6 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, glabrous; style 6.2-7 mm long, glabrous, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), 12-20 mm long, 12-15 mm wide, sessile or subsessile, not constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, glabrous, beaked. Flowers in August, September, October and November. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Geraldton Sandplains, Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain IBRA regions.