Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Dillwynia phylicoides

Flowers and leaves. Photographer Don Wood, Aranda Bushland, ACT

Shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer MD Crisp, between Kelso and Sofala

Common name

Small-leaved parrot-pea, Parrot-pea

Family

Fabaceae

Where found

Dry forest, woodland, and grassy areas. Widespread.

Notes

Prostrate or sprawling to erect shrub to 1.5 m tall. Stems with stiff spreading hairs. Leaves alternating up the stems, usually 0.3-0.8 cm long, 0.5-1 mm wide, spirally twisted, tips pointed, often curved, surfaces smooth to warty, usually covered with stiff hairs, or having at least a few stiff hairs near the leaf tips. The outside of the calyx hairless or with a sparse to moderate cover of stiff hairs. Standard petal 5-12 mm long. Flowers pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, yellow with red to purple markings (sometimes faint), in 1-8 flowered clusters. Flowers most of the year.

All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Dillwynia~phylicoides (accessed 9 January, 2021)