Daviesia anceps

Daviesia anceps is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is a dense, erect or low-lying shrub with its branchlets reduced to flattened cladodes, and yellow flowers with red markings.

Description

Daviesia anceps is a dense, glabrous, erect or low-lying shrub that typically grows to a height of. Its branchlets are reduced to flattened cladodes wide and the leaves reduced to small scales. The flowers are arranged singly in upper scale-leaves on a pedicel long. The five sepals are long and joined at the base, the lobes long, the two upper lobes joined in a broad "lip" and the lower three triangular. The standard petal is broadly elliptic, yellow with red markings and a yellow centre and long, the wings yellow and about long and the keel yellow and the same length as the wings. Flowering mainly occurs from November to January and the fruit is an inflated triangular pod long.

Taxonomy and naming

Daviesia anceps was first formally described in 1853 by Nikolai Turczaninow in the Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou. The specific epithet means "flattened".

Distribution and habitat

This species of pea mainly grows in mallee and heathland around Ravensthorpe and in the Fitzgerald River National Park.

Conservation status

Daviesia anceps is classified as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.