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Daviesia abnormis F.Muell.

Reference
Fragm. 2:106 (1860)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Pungent shrub, 0.3-0.5 m high. Fl. yellow & red/orange-brown, Mar to Apr. Grey sand or clay loam over laterite. Flats.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 30 May 1996
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Scientific Description

Erect, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, spiny at least in part, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, alternate, not continuous with stem, 12-25 mm long, 3-6 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, 1(-3) mm long, hairy. Bracteoles absent. Calyx 4.2-5.7 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 11-12 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow, red, orange or brown, with some yellow, red, orange or brown spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 10-12 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 9-11 mm long, auriculate, keel 10-10.5 mm long, beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 1.2-1.5 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments united in an open sheath with one free stamen, 9.5-10 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, glabrous; style 10-10.5 mm long, glabrous, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), 11(-12) mm long, 5(-6) mm wide, sessile or subsessile, not constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, glabrous, beaked. Flowers in March and April. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Mallee and Esperance IBRA regions.

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Esperance Plains, Mallee.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzgerald, Western Mallee.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Albany, Gnowangerup, Jerramungup, Kent, Lake Grace, Ravensthorpe.