Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Dillwynia acicularis
Common name
A parrot-pea
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Dry forest on sandstone or occasionally on granite. Sydney area. Ranges and tablelands north of Braidwood.
Notes
Shrub to about 3 m high. Stems hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, 1–3.5 cm long, narrow-linear, often triangular in cross section with a groove along upper surface, tips pointed, surfaces hairless or with some silky hairs. Flowers pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, yellow with red markings. Standard petal 7–9 mm long. Calyx abruptly narrowed at the base. Infloresence raceme-like, to 3 cm or more in length.
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~acicularis (accessed 9 January, 2021)
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