Daviesia elongata
Daviesia elongata is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a glabrous, spreading or sprawling shrub with narrowly egg-shaped to linear phyllodes and yellow-orange and maroon flowers.
Description
Daviesia elongata is a glabrous, spreading or sprawling shrub that typically grows to a height of and up to wide. Its phyllodes are narrowly egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base to linear, long and wide with a prominent mid-vein. The flowers are arranged in groups of two or three in leaf axils on a peduncle long, the rachis, each flower on a pedicel long with triangular bracts about long. The sepals are long and joined at the base, upper two lobes joined for most of their length, the lower three about long and triangular. The standard petal is elliptic, long, wide and yellow or yellow-orange with a red base and a notched tip. The wings are long and maroon, and the keel is about long and maroon. Flowering occurs from September to January and the fruit is a flattened triangular pod long.Taxonomy
Daviesia elongata was first formally described in 1864 by George Bentham in Flora Australiensis. The specific epithet means "lengthened", referring to the phyllodes.In 1995, Michael Crisp described two subspecies in Australian Systematic Botany, but only the name of the autonym is accepted by the Australian Plant Census:Daviesia elongata Benth. subsp. elongata;Daviesia elongata subsp. implexa Crisp.