Daviesia anceps is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is a dense, erect or low-lying shrub with its branchlets reduced to flattened cladodes, and yellow flowers with red markings.
Daviesia anceps is a dense, glabrous, erect or low-lying shrub that typically grows to a height of Шаблон:Cvt. Its branchlets are reduced to flattened cladodes Шаблон:Cvt wide and the leaves reduced to small scales. The flowers are arranged singly in upper scale-leaves on a pedicelШаблон:Cvt long. The five sepals are Шаблон:Cvt long and joined at the base, the lobes Шаблон:Cvt long, the two upper lobes joined in a broad "lip" and the lower three triangular. The standard petal is broadly elliptic, yellow with red markings and a yellow centre and Шаблон:Cvt long, the wings yellow and about Шаблон:Cvt long and the keel yellow and the same length as the wings. Flowering mainly occurs from November to January and the fruit is an inflated triangular podШаблон:Cvt long.[1][2]
Taxonomy and naming
Daviesia anceps was first formally described in 1853 by Nikolai Turczaninow in the Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou.[3][4] The specific epithet (anceps) means "flattened".[5]
