Daviesia anceps Turcz.

Scientific Description

Erect or twining or climbing plants, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems flattened, not spiny, glabrous; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades absent or apparently so (reduced to scales), alternate, not continuous with stem, hairy, with simple hairs, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent, 2-2.5; pustules or glands absent. Stipules apparently absent even from the youngest leaves. Pedicel present, 2-5.5 mm long, glabrous. Bracteoles absent. Calyx 5-7 mm long, not accrescent, glabrous, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 9-10.5 mm long, uniformly coloured, yellow; claws present; standard 10-10.5 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 8-9 mm long, not auriculate, keel 8.5-10 mm long, beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.5-0.6 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 7-8 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, glabrous; style 10-10.5 mm long, glabrous, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), 7-9 mm long, 4-6 mm wide, sessile or subsessile, not constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, beaked. Flowers in November. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Esperance IBRA regions.