Daviesia uniflora D.A.Herb.

Scientific Description

Erect or prostrate,spreading or scrambling, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, spiny at least in part, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, alternate, not continuous with stem, 6-13 mm long, 2-7 mm wide, hairy, with simple hairs, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules apparently absent even from the youngest leaves. Pedicel present, 10-15 mm long, glabrous. Bracteoles absent. Calyx 5-7 mm long, not accrescent, glabrous, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 10-14 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow, red or brown, with some yellow, red or brown spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 10-12 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 9-10 mm long, auriculate, keel 9-10 mm long, beaked, auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.6-1 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 10-12 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, glabrous; style 13-13.5 mm long, glabrous, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), 13-15 mm long, 9-10 mm wide, sessile or subsessile, not constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, glabrous, beaked. Flowers in September and October. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Avon Wheatbelt and Mallee IBRA regions.