Daviesia asperula
Citation:
Crisp, J. Adelaide Bot. Gard. 6:55 (1982).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: None
Description:
Compact or spreading shrub to 2 m tall, the branchlets greenish, with several longitudinal minutely scabrid ribs; phyllodes arranged regularly spirally, often crowded, divaricate, recurved at least at the base, laterally compressed or flattened, either subulate or obliquely falcate to narrow-obovate, 5-25 x 1-4.5 mm, pungent, articulate at the base, striate with parallel nerves, scabridulous.
Flowers 5-6 mm long, racemes 1 per axil, 2- or 3-flowered, rhachis almost nil; bract(s) at the base of each peduncle or pedicel ovate to spathulate, to 1 mm long, brown to dark-brown, glabrous; calyx campanulate, 2-3 mm long, on 1-2 mm long pedicels, glabrous, lobes short, triangular to apiculate, slightly fimbriate, the upper 2 partly united higher up; standard very broad-ovate, c. 7 x c. 7 mm, on a c. 2 mm long claw, orange or yellow with a deep-red centre; wings obovate, c. 5 x c. 2 mm, auriculate, pale-red adaxially; keel obovate, acute, c. 5 x c. 2 mm, on a greenish c. 2 mm long claw deep-red distally.
Pod broad-triangular, constricted to a slightly elongated stipe-like base, 10-14 x 7-10 mm, with a semicircular curve along the lower suture, brown, glabrous, l-seeded; seed broadly ovoid-ellipsoid, 3.3-4 x 2.4-3.3 x c. 2.4 mm, with a large thickly 2-lobed aril projecting beyond the outline of the seed in profile.
Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: No flowering time is available |
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