Daviesia speciosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a low, erect, spindly, glabrous shrub with needle-shaped phyllodes almost indistinguishable from the branchlets, and red flowers.
Description
Daviesia speciosa is an erect, spindly, glabrous shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 30–80 cm (12–31 in) and has many erect stems. Its phyllodes are tapering needle-shaped, almost indistinguishable from the branchlets and sharply pointed, 15–80 mm (0.59–3.15 in) long and about 2 mm (0.079 in) wide. The flowers are arranged singly or in pairs in leaf axils on a peduncle 3–4 mm (0.12–0.16 in) long, the rachis 2–6 mm (0.079–0.236 in) long, each flower on a thread-like pedicel 5–15 mm (0.20–0.59 in) long with linear bracts 8–10 mm (0.31–0.39 in) long at the base. The sepals are about 8–11 mm (0.31–0.43 in) long and joined at the base, the five lobes about 2 mm (0.079 in) long. The flowers are red, and apparently bird-pollinated, the standard petal egg-shaped, turned back through a small angle, about 20–23 mm (0.79–0.91 in) long and 15–17 mm (0.59–0.67 in) wide. The wings are 20–22 mm (0.79–0.87 in) long, and the keel 23–25 mm (0.91–0.98 in) long. Flowering occurs in April and May.[2][3]
^Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 310. ISBN9780958034180.
