Daviesia umbonata
Daviesia umbonata is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a bushy, openly-branched shrub with narrowly elliptic to narrowly egg-shaped, sharply pointed phyllodes and yellow and red flowers.
Description
Daviesia umbonata is a bushy, openly-branched shrub that typically grows to a height of. Its phyllodes are narrowly elliptic to narrowly egg-shaped, long, wide and sharply pointed. The flowers are arranged singly or in pairs in the axils on a pedicel long. The sepals are long and joined at the base, the upper two lobes joined for and the lower three triangular and long. The standard petal is elliptic with a notched centre, about long, wide and yellow with a dark red base. The wings are long and dull red, the keel long and dull red. Flowering occurs in June and July and the fruit is a shallowly triangular pod long.
Taxonomy
Daviesia umbonata was first formally described in 1997 by Gregory T. Chandler and Michael Crisp in Australian Systematic Botany from specimens collected by Crisp near Moonijin in 1980. The specific epithet means "bossed" referring to bulges near the sepal lobes.
Distribution and habitat
This daviesia grows in kwongan north from the Wongan Hills-Manmanning area in the Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains and Jarrah Forest bioregions of south-western Western Australia.
Conservation status
Daviesia umbonata is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.