Daviesia pauciflora is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is an open shrub with many stems, flattened, linear phyllodes, and mostly yellow flowers with red, orange and dull brownish markings.
Description
Daviesia pauciflora is an open shrub that typically grows to a height of up to about 30–80 cm (12–31 in) and has many ribbed stems. Its phyllodes are scattered and erect, linear and flattened, up to 400 mm (16 in) long and 1.0–1.5 mm (0.039–0.059 in) wide with parallel ribs. The flowers are arranged in leaf axils in racemes of up to three, the raceme on a peduncle 1–13 mm (0.039–0.512 in) long, the rachis up to 5 mm (0.20 in) long, each flower on a pedicel 1.5–10 mm (0.059–0.394 in) long with egg-shaped bracts 1.0–1.5 mm (0.039–0.059 in) long at the base. The sepals are 4–5 mm (0.16–0.20 in) long and joined for most of their length apart from five small lobes. The standard petal is broadly elliptic with a notched centre, about 8 mm (0.31 in) long, 10 mm (0.39 in) wide, and mostly yellow with a red base and yellow centre. The wings are about 6 mm (0.24 in) long and dark red with orange tips, the keel about 5 mm (0.20 in) long and dull brownish. Flowering occurs from October to January and the fruit is a flattened, triangular pod 11–14 mm (0.43–0.55 in) long.[2][3]
This daviesia grows in tall, dense heath from near Munglinup to Esperance in the Esperance Plains and Mallee biogeographic regions in the south of Western Australia.[2][3]
^Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 272. ISBN9780958034180.
