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Daviesia triflora Crisp

Reference
Nuytsia 5:160-161,Fig.1b (1984)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Many-stemmed, leafless shrub, 0.25-0.6 m high. Fl. yellow/orange & red/black, May to Sep. White or grey sand, laterite. Sandplains, 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 absent or apparently so (reduced to scales), alternate, terete. Stipules apparently absent even from the youngest leaves. Pedicel present, 2.5-4 mm long, glabrous. Bracteoles absent. Calyx 2.5-2.6 mm long, not accrescent, glabrous, ribbed; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 5.5-7 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow, red, orange or brown, with some yellow, red, orange or brown spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 5.2-6.2 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 4-4.2 mm long, not auriculate, keel 4-4.3 mm long, beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.3-0.4 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 3-4 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, glabrous; style 4-4.5 mm long, glabrous, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), 12-15 mm long, 7-10 mm wide, sessile or subsessile, not constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, glabrous, beaked. Flowers in May, June, 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.

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain.
IBRA Subregions
Dandaragan Plateau, Lesueur Sandplain, Merredin, Northern Jarrah Forest, Perth.
IMCRA Regions
Central West Coast.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Armadale, Bayswater, Belmont, Carnamah, Chittering, Claremont, Cockburn, Coorow, Dandaragan, Gingin, Gosnells, Irwin, Kalamunda, Melville, Moora, Morawa, Mundaring, Nedlands, Perenjori, Perth, Rockingham, South Perth, Stirling, Subiaco, Swan, Wanneroo.