Daviesia aphylla is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, bushy shrub with glabrous foliage, up to six sharply-pointed phyllodes on each branchlet, and orange-red and yellow flowers.
Description
Daviesia aphylla is an erect, bushy shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 2 m (6 ft 7 in) and has glabrous foliage. Its leaves are reduced to up to six rigid, sharply-pointed phyllodes up to 15 mm (0.59 in) long near the end of each branchlet, otherwise leafless. The flowers are arranged in groups of four or more in leaf axils on a peduncle 0.5–4.0 mm (0.020–0.157 in) long, each flower on a pedicel 1–7 mm (0.039–0.276 in) long with oblong bracts at the base. The sepals are 2.5–3.5 mm (0.098–0.138 in) long and joined at the base with 0.50–0.75 mm (0.020–0.030 in) long. The standard is orange-red, grading to yellow at the tips, 3–5 mm (0.12–0.20 in) long and 4.0–5.5 mm (0.16–0.22 in) wide, the wings orange-brown grading to yellow at the tip, 4.5–5.0 mm (0.18–0.20 in) long and the keel white with a purple-red tip and about 4 mm (0.16 in) long. Flowering occurs from August to October and the fruit is a broadly egg-shaped to triangular pod 5–7 mm (0.20–0.28 in) long.[2][3]
This species of pea grows in heath, woodland or mallee from the wheatbelt and Goldfields–Esperance regions of Western Australia through the Murray Mallee districts of South Australia, almost as far east as the Victorian border.[2][3]
^Maxwell, George; von Mueller, Ferdinand (1864). Flora Australiensis. Vol. 2. London: Lovell Reeve & Co. p. 88. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
^Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 135. ISBN9780958034180.
