Daviesia smithiorum is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, glabrous, spindly shrub with scattered tapering, needle-shaped phyllodes and yellow-orange and red flowers.
Description
Daviesia smithiorum is an erect, spindly, glabrous and glaucous shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 50 cm (20 in). Its phyllodes are scattered, tapering needle-shaped and sharply pointed with a hooked tip, 10–50 mm (0.39–1.97 in) long and 0.5–1 mm (0.020–0.039 in) wide at the base. The flowers are arranged in a group of two to four in leaf axils on a peduncle about 1 mm (0.039 in) long, the rachis less than 2 mm (0.079 in) long, each flower on a pedicel 2.5–5 mm (0.098–0.197 in) long. The sepals are about 2.5 mm (0.098 in) long and joined at the base, the lobes triangular and about 0.5 mm (0.020 in) long. The standard petal is broadly elliptic with a notched centre, about 6.5 mm (0.26 in) long, 6–7 mm (0.24–0.28 in) wide, and yellow-orange with red markings. The wings and keel are about 5.5 mm (0.22 in) long. Flowering occurs in June and the fruit is a flattened, triangular pod 15–17 mm (0.59–0.67 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. 308. ISBN9780958034180.
