Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Daviesia corymbosa

Flowers. Photographer John Tann,  Heathcote National Park south of Sydney

Flowering branch. Photographer B Myers, Waterfall, south of Sydney

Flowers and 'leaves'. Photographer John Tann,  Heathcote National Park south of Sydney

Shrub. Photographer John Tann, Heathcote National Park south of Sydney

Common name

A bitter-pea

Family

Fabaceae 

Where found

Dry forest and heath. Coast, ranges, and tablelands. Koscisuzko National Park.

Notes

Shrub to 2 m tall. Branchlets angular, lightly ribbed, hairless. 'Leaves' scattered up the stems, variable in shape, 2-20 cm long, 2-60 mm wide, green, hairless, veins prominent and reticulate, margins more or less wavy, entire or obscurely finely scalloped, tips tapered to a point or rounded. Flowers pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, standard petal ye llow to orange-yellow with a red-brown infusion surrounding an intense yellow bilobed marking at the centre, 5-9 mm long, 7.7-11.1 mm wide. Keel red, very dark at the tip. Flowers in clusters of 5-20 flowers, the clusters on a mostly naked common stalk 10-40 mm long, terminating in an umbel-like cluster. Flowers Spring to Summer.

Hybridises with Daviesia latifolia.

All species of Daviesia have 'leaves' that taste bitter, and hairless triangular pods.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Daviesia~corymbosa (accessed 3 April 2021)

Description partly based on Crisp, M.D., Cayzer, L., Chandler, G.R. & Cook, L.G. (2017), A monograph of Daviesia (Mirbelieae, Faboideae, Fabaceae). Phytotaxa 300(1): 105-107, Fig. 43