Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Dillwynia glaucula

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, ACT

Branch with spent flowers and pods. Photographer Jackie Miles, east of Lake George

Shrub. Photographer Jackie Miles, east of Lake George

Common name

Michelago parrot-pea

Family

Fabaceae

Where found

Woodland, remnant bushland on roadsides, and rocky places. Tablelands between Nimmitabel and Bungonia State Conservation Area.

Notes

Shrub to 2.5 m tall. Stems hairless, with conspicuous yellow lenticels. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.45-0.75 cm long, about 0.5 mm wide, keeled, tips blunt and often curved, surfaces smooth, hairless. Young leaves glaucous, becoming bluish green to green with age. Standard petal 4.5-5.5 mm long, 9-11 mm wide. Flowers pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, yellow with red markings. Keel red. Flowers single, in the axils of the upper leaves. Flowers Spring to Summer.

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

Endangered NSW. Provisions of the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species.

NSW Threatened Species profile with photos:  http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=10223 (accessed 5 January, 2021)

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Dillwynia~glaucula (accessed 5 January, 2021)