Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Dillwynia brunioides
Common name
Sandstone parrot-pea
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Dry forest and heath. Coast, ranges, and the eastern tablelands north of the Kings Highway.
Notes
Upright shrub to 1 m tall. Stems hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.5-1.5 cm long, linear, not spirally twisted, more or less triangular in cross section with a groove along upper surface, tips blunt to pointed, surfaces hairless or with long, fine hairs, and warty. Standard petal 8-10 mm long. Calyx hairy, abruptly narrowed at the base. Flowers pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, yellow, with red markings. No flower stalks. Flowers in dense clusters of 1-9 flowers at the ends of the banchlets. Flowers mostly Spring.
In all species of Dillwynia, the standard petal is much broader than long.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Dillwynia~brunioides (accessed 9 January, 2021)
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