''Dillwynia phylicoides'', commonly known as small-leaf parrot-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family

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and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect to open shrub with twisted, linear to narrow oblong leaves, and yellow and red flowers.

Description

''Dillwynia phylicoides'' is an erect to open shrub that typically grows to a height of up to and has stiff, spreading hairs on the stems. The leaves are twisted, linear to narrow oblong, long, about wide on a petiole long. The flowers are arranged singly or in clusters of up to eight in leaf axils near the ends of branchlets on a pedicel long with

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s and bracteoles long. The sepals are long with stiff hairs on the outside and the standard petal is long and yellow with red veins. The wings are yellow and red and shorter than the standard, and the keel is orange to purplish-brown. Flowering occurs from September to December and the fruit is an oval

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long.

Taxonomy

''Dillwynia phylicoides'' was formally described in 1825 by botanist Allan Cunningham in Barron Field's ''Geographical Memoirs on New South Wales'' based on plant material he collected from hills near Bathurst. The

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(''phylicoides'') means "'' Phylica''-like".

Distribution and habitat

Small-leaf parrot-pea occurs in dry forest and woodland in Queensland, on the tablelands of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, and in eastern inland Victoria.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q15533128 phylicoides Fabales of Australia Flora of New South Wales Flora of Queensland Flora of the Australian Capital Territory Flora of Victoria (state)