Daviesia grossa 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 crowded phyllodes and yellow and dark red flowers.
Description
Daviesia grossa is an erect, broombush-like, glabrous shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 3 m (9.8 ft). Its phyllodes are crowded, linear to fusiform, 25–55 mm (0.98–2.17 in) long, 1.5–2.5 mm (0.059–0.098 in) long and sharply pointed. The flowers are arranged in groups of two or three in leaf axils on a peduncle 6–10 mm (0.24–0.39 in) long, the rachis 1.5–10 mm (0.059–0.394 in) long, each flower on a pedicel 3–15 mm (0.12–0.59 in) long with bracts about 1 mm (0.039 in) long at the base. The sepals are 7–8 mm (0.28–0.31 in) long and joined at the base, the upper two lobes joined for most of their length and the lower three pointed. The standard petal is broadly elliptic, 14.5–17 mm (0.57–0.67 in) long and yellow with a dark red centre, the wings 14.5–17.5 mm (0.57–0.69 in) long and dark red, and the keel is 15.0–15.5 mm (0.59–0.61 in) long and dull dark red. Flowering occurs from November to April and the fruit is an inflated triangular pod 15–20 mm (0.59–0.79 in) long.[2][3]
This daviesia grows on exposed, rocky places or in heath, but is only known from parts of the Cape Arid National Park in the Mallee region of south-western Western Australia.[3][2]
^Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 211. ISBN9780958034180.
