Daviesia cardiophylla F.Muell.

Scientific Description

Erect or prostrate,spreading or scrambling, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, not spiny, glabrous; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, alternate, continuous with stem, 3-7 mm long, 2-3 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, 4-4.5 mm long, glabrous. Bracteoles absent. Calyx 3.5-4.5 mm long, not accrescent, glabrous, ribbed; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 7.5-12 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow or orange, with some yellow or orange spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 6-10.5 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 8-10 mm long, auriculate, keel 9-10 mm long, beaked, auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.7-0.8 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 7-9 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, glabrous; style 8-10 mm long, glabrous, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), 10-14 mm long, 6-8 mm wide, sessile or subsessile, not constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, glabrous, beaked. Flowers in May, July and August. Occurs in the Eremaean and South-West Botanical Province, in the Coolgardie, Geraldton Sandplains, Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest and Mallee IBRA regions.