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Daviesia megacalyx Crisp

Reference
Austral.Syst.Bot. 8:1209-1211,Fig.22 (1995)
Conservation Code
Threatened
A taxon name retains its ‘Threatened’ status until a new name has been officially endorsed and appears in the Gazettal Notice.
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect shrub, 0.7-1.6 m high. Fl. yellow/orange & red/brown/pink, Aug to Sep. Gravelly laterite. Ridges, hillslopes.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 5 June 1996
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Scientific Description

Erect, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, not spiny, glabrous; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, alternate, continuous with stem, 30-90 mm long, 6-10 mm wide, glabrous, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules apparently absent even from the youngest leaves. Pedicel present, 8 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles absent. Calyx 7.5 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 12 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow, red, orange or brown, with some yellow, red, orange or brown spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 9 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 7.2 mm long, not auriculate, beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 6.5 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, glabrous; style 10 mm long, glabrous, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), 20 mm long, 10 mm wide, sessile or subsessile, not constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, glabrous, beaked. Flowers in August and September. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Esperance IBRA regions. Conservation Code Threatened (T).

C. Hollister and K.R. Thiele, 24 October 2023

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Esperance Plains.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzgerald.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Ravensthorpe.