Daviesia gracilis Crisp

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 absent or apparently so (reduced to scales), simple, alternate, continuous with stem, glabrous, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent, 0.5-1.5; pustules or glands absent. Stipules apparently absent even from the youngest leaves. Pedicel present, 1-3.5 mm long, glabrous. Bracteoles absent. Calyx 3-4 mm long, not accrescent, glabrous, ribbed; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 8-10 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow, red or orange, with some yellow, red or orange spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 7-8.5 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 6-7.5 mm long, not auriculate, keel 5-6.5 mm long, beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.3-0.5 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 5-6 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, glabrous; style 6.2-8 mm long, glabrous, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), 12-15 mm long, 7-10 mm wide, sessile or subsessile, not constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, glabrous, beaked. Flowers in August, September and October. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest, Mallee and Esperance IBRA regions.