''Daviesia localis'' is a species of flowering plant in the family

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and is endemic to a restricted area of the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, spreading shrub with spine-tipped branchlets, scattered, spreading, curved, needle-shaped, sharply-pointed

phyllode Phyllodes are modified petioles or leaf stems, which are leaf-like in appearance and function. In some plants, these become flattened and widened, while the leaf itself becomes reduced or vanishes altogether. Thus the phyllode comes to serve the ...

s and orange-yellow and red flowers with a v-shaped central mark.

Description

''Daviesia localis'' is an erect, spreading shrub, typically high and about wide with divergent, spine-tipped branchlets. Its phyllodes are scattered, needle-shaped, gently curved, sharply-pointed, long and wide. The flowers are arranged in groups of four to seven in leaf axils on a

peduncle Peduncle may refer to: *Peduncle (botany), a stalk supporting an inflorescence, which is the part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed *Peduncle (anatomy), a stem, through which a mass of tissue is attached to a body **Peduncle (art ...

long with oblong to narrow elliptic

bract In botany, a bract is a modified or specialized leaf, especially one associated with a reproductive structure such as a flower, inflorescence axis or cone scale. Bracts are usually different from foliage leaves. They may be smaller, larger, or of ...

s long at the base, each flower on a

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long. The sepals are long and joined at the base, the upper two lobes joined for most of their length and the lower broad and less than long. The standard petal is egg-shaped with a deep notch at the tip, long and orange-yellow with a red flare and yellow, v-shaped central mark. The wings are long and dull red, and the keel long and dull red. Flowering occurs in October and November and the fruit is a triangular

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long.

Taxonomy and naming

''Daviesia localis'' was first formally described in 2015 by

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in the journal '' Nuytsia'' from specimens collected north of Bindoon in 2002. The

specific epithet In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...

(''localis'') means "local, belonging to a given place", referring to the restricted range of the species.

Distribution and habitat

This daviesia grows is only known from a single population in the Bindoon area where it grows in forest.

Conservation status

''Daviesia localis'' is listed as " Priority One" by the Government of Western Australia

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, meaning that it is known from only one or a few locations which are potentially at risk.

References

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Eudicots of Western Australia Plants described in 2015