Daviesia mollis Turcz.

Scientific Description

Erect, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, not spiny, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, alternate, not continuous with stem, 9-20 mm long, 6-18 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, 2-2.3 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles absent. Calyx 5-5.5 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribbed; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 8-11 mm long, multicoloured, yellow, mostly red or brown, with some red or brown spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 6.5-7 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 6.5-8 mm long, not auriculate, keel 6.5-7 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), 5-6.5 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, glabrous; style 7-7.5 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. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Esperance IBRA regions.