Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Dillwynia ramosissima
Common name
Bushy parrot-pea
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Dry forest and heath. Coast and ranges. Sometimes on the tablelands.
Notes
Erect or sprawling shrub to 1.5 m tall. The ends of the branchlets often bear spines. Stems hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.1-1 cm long, about 0.5 mm wide, tips blunt, or curved and pointed, surfaces smooth or covered with minute warts, and usually hairless, margins occasionally rolled upwards. Standard petal 7-10 mm long. Flowers pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, yellow with red to purple markings, keel red. Calyx tapering gradually towards the base. Flowers single, at the ends od the stems or at the base of the upper leaves, appearing clustered. Flowers Winter to 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~ramosissima (accessed 12 January, 2021)
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