Daviesia eurylobos Crisp & G.Chandler

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, 8-25 mm long, 2-4 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, 2.5-3 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles absent. Calyx 3-3.6 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribbed; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 9-10.5 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow or red, with some yellow or red spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 9-10 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 8-9.2 mm long, auriculate, keel 6.5-8.6 mm long, beaked, auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.3-0.6 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 5.6-7 mm long. Ovary stipitate or sessile or subsessile, glabrous; style 9.5-11 mm long, glabrous, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), stipitate or sessile or subsessile, not constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, beaked. Flowers in August. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Mallee and Esperance IBRA regions.