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Daviesia purpurascens Crisp
Purple-leaved Daviesia

Reference
J.Adelaide Bot.Gard. 2:274-276 (1980)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect shrub, 0.2-1 m high. Fl. yellow & red/brown, Oct. Sandy or loamy soils over laterite. Flats, ridges.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 6 June 1996
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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, opposite, continuous with stem, 10-65 mm long, 1-2.5 mm wide, glabrous, terete; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules apparently absent even from the youngest leaves. Pedicel present, 2-3 mm long, glabrous. Bracteoles absent. Calyx 2.5-4 mm long, not accrescent, glabrous, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 6-7.4 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow, red or brown, with some yellow, red or brown spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 5.3-5.7 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 5-53 mm long, not auriculate, keel 5-5.5 mm long, beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.5-0.6 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 5 mm long, glabrous, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), 7-8 mm long, 5-6 mm wide, sessile or subsessile, not constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, glabrous, beaked. Flowers in October. Occurs in the Eremaean and South-West Botanical Province, in the Coolgardie, Geraldton Sandplains and Avon Wheatbelt IBRA regions.

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Great Victoria Desert, Mallee, Murchison.
IBRA Subregions
Central, Eastern Murchison, Fitzgerald, Katanning, Merredin, Shield, Southern Cross, Western Mallee.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Bruce Rock, Coolgardie, Corrigin, Gnowangerup, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Kondinin, Kulin, Lake Grace, Laverton, Menzies, Yilgarn.