Dillwynia laxiflora


Dillwynia laxiflora is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is a prostrate to spreading shrub with needle-shaped leaves and yellow and red flowers.

Description

Dillwynia laxiflora is a prostrate to spreading or scrambling shrub with mostly glabrous branches. The leaves are cylindrical, long and wide with a longitudinal groove on the upper surface. The flowers are mostly yellow or red with yellow or red markings, each flower on a pedicel long, the sepals hairy and long. The standard petal is long, the wings long and the keel long. There are ten stamens and the style is hairy and long. Flowering occurs in October and the fruit is a follicle that is not constricted between the seeds.

Taxonomy

Dillwynia laxiflora was first described in 1837 by George Bentham in Charles von Hügel's Botanisches Archiv der Gartenbaugesellschaft der Ossterreichischen Kaiserstaates. The specific epithet means "wide or open-flowered".

Distribution and habitat

This dillwynia grows in sandy or gravelly soils on hillcrests in the south-west of Western Australia.