Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Dillwynia crispii

Common name

A parrot-pea

Family

Fabaceae

Where found

Woodland, heath, and in crevices on rocky sandstone pavements. Coast, ranges, and tablelands, mostly north of the Kings Highway.

Notes

Shrub to 2.5 m tall. Bark smooth. Stems ridged, hairy, with leaf scars. Leaves alternating up the stems, 1-2.2 cm long, about 1 mm wide, not spirally twisted, tips pointed, surfaces smooth, hairless. Standard petal 10.5-15 mm wide. Flowers pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, standard petal yellow with red markings; wings yellow at the tips, grading to rosy pink, keel rosy pink to red with faint green markings. Calyx tapering gradually towards the base. Flowers usually in pairs, clustered. Flowers 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~crispii (accessed 9 January, 2021)

Description above mostly taken from: Jobson, P.C. & Weston, P.H., (1999) Two new species of Dillwynia (Fabaceae: Mirbelieae) from the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales. Telopea. 8(3): 363, figs 1, 3 (map).