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Daviesia teretifolia Benth.

Reference
Fl.Austral. 2:82 (1864)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Spreading shrub, 0.15-1 m high. Fl. yellow/orange & red, Jun to Oct. White or grey sand over laterite, lateritic clay. Flats.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 7 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, alternate, not continuous with stem, 20-45 mm long, 1.5-1.7 mm wide, glabrous, terete; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules apparently absent even from the youngest leaves. Pedicel present, 10-14 mm long, glabrous. Bracteoles absent. Calyx 3.4-4 mm long, not accrescent, glabrous, ribbed; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 7-9 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow, red or orange, with some yellow, red or orange spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 6.5-8 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 5.5-6 mm long, not auriculate, keel 5-6.4 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), 5-6 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile; style 5.5-7.7 mm long, glabrous, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), 15-20 mm long, 8-10 mm wide, sessile or subsessile, not constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, glabrous, beaked. Flowers in June, July, August, September and October. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Mallee and Esperance IBRA regions.

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Esperance Plains, Mallee.
IBRA Subregions
Eastern Mallee, Fitzgerald, Recherche.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Esperance, Jerramungup, Ravensthorpe.