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Daviesia glossosema

Daviesia glossosema
Photo: Michael D. Crisp, CC BY 3.0 au
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
SW. Australia (Stirling Range)
Climate
subtropical

About

Daviesia glossosema, commonly known as maroon-flowered daviesia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to a restricted area of south-western Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with tangled, spreading branches, cylindrical, sharply-pointed phyllodes, and unusually-shaped maroon flowers.

Where it grows

Maroon-flowered daviesia grows in heath in a small area of the Stirling Range in the south-west of Western Australia.

Other Daviesia plants

Daviesia abnormis · Sandplain Bitter Pea · Daviesia alata · Daviesia alternifolia · Daviesia anceps · Daviesia angulata · Dryland Bitter Pea · Daviesia apiculata · Golden Pea Tree · Sandhill Bitter Pea · Daviesia argillacea · Daviesia arthropoda

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Daviesia glossosema by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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