Daviesia grahamii Ewart & Jean White

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, simple, alternate, not continuous with stem, 10-70 mm long, 2-15 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, 2.5-4 mm long, glabrous. Bracteoles absent. Calyx 4.5-5 mm long, not accrescent, glabrous, ribbed; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 9-10 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow, red, orange or brown, with some yellow, red, orange or brown spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 6.5-8 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 5.5-6 mm long, auriculate, keel 5.5-6 mm long, beaked, auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.4-0.5 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 5-5.5 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, glabrous; style 5.4-6 mm long, glabrous, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), 8-9 mm long, 6-9 mm wide, sessile or subsessile, not constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, glabrous, beaked. Flowers in July, August, September and October. Occurs in the Eremaean and South-West Botanical Province, in the Little Sandy Desert, Central Ranges, Yalgoo, Murchison, Great Victorian Desert, Coolgardie, Geraldton Sandplains and Avon Wheatbelt IBRA regions.