Dillwynia ramosissima

Dillwynia ramosissima, commonly known as bushy parrot-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is a low-lying to erect shrub with linear to narrow oblong or spatula-shaped leaves and yellow flowers with red markings.

Description

Dillwynia ramosissima is a low-lying to erect shrub that typically grows to a height of with glabrous, often spiny stems. The leaves are linear to narrow oblong or spatula-shaped, long and about wide on a petiole about long, and with the edges rolled under. The flowers are arranged singly in leaf axils near the ends of branchlets on a peduncle long with bracts about long. The sepals are hairy, long and more or less glabrous, the standard petal is yellow with red veins, long, the wings shorter and yellow and the keel is red. Flowering occurs from August to November and the fruit is an oval pod long.

Taxonomy and naming

Dillwynia ramosissima was first formally described in 1837 by George Bentham in Commentationes de Leguminosarum Generibus. The specific epithet means "much-branched".

Distribution

This dillwynia grows in heath and forest south from the Cudgegong River in New South Wales and in central Victoria.