Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Dillwynia sp. Yetholme

Flowering stems. Photographer FranM, Canberra, ACT

Flowering stems. Photographer Mike Sim, Canberra, ACT

Shrub. Photographer FranM, Canberra, ACT

Common name

A Parrot Pea

Family

Fabaceae

Where found

Dry forest, woodland, and grassy areas. Between Bathurst and Oberon. ACT to Queanbeyan. May be two different species.

Notes

Shrub to 0.5 m high, or sprawling. Stems appressed hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, evenly distributed, 0.5–1.2 cm long, to 2 mm wide, not spirally twisted, tips with a short narrow straight or curved point, surfaces hairless or sprinkled with white hairs. Flowers pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, yellow to orange, with red markings. Standard petal 3–7 mm long. Calyx hairy, looking grey, abruptly narrowed at the base. Individual flowers stalkless. Flowers in short or loose 1–10-flowered clusters, at the ends of the branchlets or rarely at the bases of the leaves. Never forming tight heads. Flowers not paired.

Formerly included in Dillwynia cinerascens.

Full name Dillwynia sp. Yetholme (P.C.Jobson 5080) NSW Herbarium.

In all species of Dillwynia, the standard petal is much broader than long.

All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.

PlantNET description:  https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Dillwynia~sp.+Yetholme+(P.C.Jobson+5080) (accessed 18 April 2021)