Daviesia longifolia Benth.

Scientific Description

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, continuous with stem, 40-230 mm long, 0.8-2 mm wide, glabrous, terete; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules apparently absent even from the youngest leaves. Pedicel present, 4.5-6 mm long, glabrous. Bracteoles absent. Calyx 3.5-4.3 mm long, not accrescent, glabrous, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 8-9.5 mm long, multicoloured, yellow, mostly yellow, red or brown, with some yellow, red or brown spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 6.5-7.5 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 5.5-6 mm long, not auriculate, keel 5.5-6 mm long, beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.2-0.3 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 3.5-5 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, glabrous; style 4-6 mm long, glabrous, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), sessile or subsessile, not constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, beaked. Flowers in September, October, November and December. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Coolgardie, Geraldton Sandplains, Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest, Mallee and Swan Coastal Plain IBRA regions.