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Daviesia oppositifolia Endl.
Rattle-pea

Reference
Stirp.Herb.Huegel. 11-12 (1838)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect, multi-stemmed shrub, ca 0.5 m high. Fl. red & orange, Aug. Sand, stony loam. Hills.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 5 June 1996
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Scientific Description

Erect, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, not spiny, glabrous; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, opposite, continuous with stem, 30-40 mm long, 6-15 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, 5-6 mm long, glabrous. Bracteoles absent. Calyx 3.5-5 mm long, not accrescent, glabrous, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 8.5-10 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow or orange, with some yellow or orange spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 7-7.4 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 6-6.5 mm long, not auriculate, keel 5.5-6.5 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), 5-6 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, glabrous; style 5.5-7.5 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 August. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Jarrah Forest and Esperance IBRA regions.

C. Hollister and K.R. Thiele, 24 October 2023

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzgerald, Southern Jarrah Forest.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Albany, Cranbrook, Gnowangerup, Kojonup, Plantagenet.