Daviesia flava is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Queensland. It is a glabrous shrub with linear or narrowly egg-shaped phyllodes, and uniformly yellow flowers.
Description
Daviesia flava is a glabrous, compact to spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 2 m (6 ft 7 in). Its leaves are reduced to linear to narrowly egg-shaped phyllodes 30–130 mm (1.2–5.1 in) long, 2–17 mm (0.079–0.669 in) wide with prominent veins on both sides. The flowers are arranged in one to several racemes of three to ten in leaf axils, the racemes on a peduncle 8–24 mm (0.31–0.94 in) long, the rachis 0.5–13 mm (0.020–0.512 in) long, each flower on a pedicel 4.5–11 mm (0.18–0.43 in) long with bracts about 1.5 mm (0.059 in) long at the base. The sepals are 3.0–3.5 mm (0.12–0.14 in) long and joined at the base, the two upper lobes joined for part of their length and the lower three triangular. The petals are uniformly yellow, the standard petal elliptic, 5.0–6.0 mm (0.20–0.24 in) long, 5–8 mm (0.20–0.31 in) wide, the wings 6–7 mm (0.24–0.28 in) long and the keel 5.0–5.5 mm (0.20–0.22 in) long. Flowering occurs from March to November and the fruit is a flattened, triangular pod 8–10 mm (0.31–0.39 in) long.[2][3]
^Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 200. ISBN9780958034180.
