Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Dillwynia juniperina
Common name
A parrot-pea
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Woodland. Known only from near Bowan Park, Trunkey, near Abercrombie Caves.
Notes
Shrub to 2 m high. Leaves with sharp pointed tips. Stems appressed hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, moderately crowded, 0.6–1.8 cm long, about 0.5–0.9 mm wide, rigid, triangular in cross section, usually hairless, stalkless. Standard petal 5.5–9 mm long. Flowers pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, yellow with red markings, keel red. Calyx 3–5 mm long, hairy, the lower teeth much shorter than the tube, abruptly narrowed at the base. Flowers in 2–10-flowered clusters. Flowers Aug.–Nov.
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~juniperina (accessed 12 January, 2021)
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