Daviesia polyphylla Lindl.

Scientific Description

Erect, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, spiny at least in part, glabrous; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, alternate, continuous with stem, 4.5-15 mm long, 1.2-5 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, 3-4 mm long, glabrous. Bracteoles absent. Calyx 1.5-2.5 mm long, accrescent (enlarged in fruit), glabrous, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 5.5-7.5 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow, red, orange or brown, with some yellow, red, orange or brown spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 4.5-6.5 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 4-5 mm long, not auriculate, keel 3-5.3 mm long, beaked, not 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), 3-5.4 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, glabrous; style 3.2-6.2 mm long, glabrous, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), 10-12 mm long, 7-10 mm wide, sessile or subsessile, not constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, glabrous, beaked. Flowers in July, August and September. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Geraldton Sandplains, Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain IBRA regions.