Daviesia cordata, commonly known as bookleaf,[1] is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a slender, erect shrub with scattered egg-shaped phyllodes, and yellow-orange and pinkish-purple flowers.
Daviesia cordata is a slender, erect, glabrous shrub that typically grows to a height of Шаблон:Cvt. Its leaves are reduced to scattered, spreading, egg-shaped phyllodes Шаблон:Cvt long and Шаблон:Cvt wide, with a heart-shaped, stem-clasping base. The flowers are arranged in groups of ten to fifteen in leaf axils on a peduncleШаблон:Cvt long, each flower on a pedicelШаблон:Cvt long with two circular bractsШаблон:Cvt wide at the base. The sepals are Шаблон:Cvt long and joined at the base, the upper lobes joined for most of their length and the lower three triangular and about Шаблон:Cvt long. The standard is yellow with orange at the base and tip, circular to elliptic, Шаблон:Cvt long and Шаблон:Cvt wide. The wings are pinkish-red to purple and Шаблон:Cvt long and the keel pinkish purple and Шаблон:Cvt long. Flowering occurs from July to December and the fruit is a flattened, triangular podШаблон:Cvt long.[1][2]
