Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Dillwynia cinerascens
Common name
Grey parrot-pea
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Dry forest and woodland. ACT and tablelands. Occasionally on the Western Slopes. Mainly in Vic.
Notes
Shrub to 1.5 m tall or sprawling. Stems appressed hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, moderately crowded, 0.3-3 cm long, 0.3-0.5 mm wide, not spirally twisted, surfaces hairless or sprinkled with white hairs. Flowers pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, Standard petal orange or yellow to pink with red markings, 5-8 mm long, wings often red to brown. Individual flowers stalked. Calyx abruptly narrowed at the base. Flowers in clusters of 1-10 flowers.
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~cinerascens (accessed 12 January, 2021)
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