Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Dillwynia sieberi

Flowers and leaves. Photographer Don Wood, South East Forests National Park

Flowers and leaves. Photographer Don Wood, Cuumbean Nature Reserve near Queanbeyan

Shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Cuumbean Nature Reserve near Queanbeyan

Common name

Prickly parrot-pea, Sieber's parrot-pea

Family

Fabaceae

Where found

Dry forest and woodland, often on stony ridges. Widespread, but not recorded from Kosciuszko National Park.

Notes

Shrub to 2.5 m tall. Sharp-pointed leaves. Stems hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.7-2 cm long, about 0.4–0.8 mm wide, rigid, linear, triangular in cross section, surfaces usually hairless. Yellowish leaf stalks 0.4-1.2 mm long. Standard petal 5.5-9 mm long. Flowers pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, yellow with red to purple or dark markings, keel red. Calyx abruptly narrowed at the base. Flowers in 2–10-flowered clusters up to 2.5 cm long. Flowers Sep.–Nov.

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

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

Rare Vic.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Dillwynia~sieberi (accessed 12 January, 2021)