Daviesia localis is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae 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 phyllodes and orange-yellow and red flowers with a v-shaped central mark.
Daviesia localis is an erect, spreading shrub, typically Шаблон:Cvt high and about Шаблон:Cvt wide with divergent, spine-tipped branchlets. Its phyllodes are scattered, needle-shaped, gently curved, sharply-pointed, Шаблон:Cvt long and Шаблон:Cvt wide. The flowers are arranged in groups of four to seven in leaf axils on a peduncleШаблон:Cvt long with oblong to narrow elliptic bractsШаблон:Cvt long at the base, each flower on a pedicelШаблон:Cvt long. The sepals are Шаблон:Cvt long and joined at the base, the upper two lobes joined for most of their length and the lower broad and less than Шаблон:Cvt long. The standard petal is egg-shaped with a deep notch at the tip, Шаблон:Cvt long and orange-yellow with a red flare and yellow, v-shaped central mark. The wings are Шаблон:Cvt long and dull red, and the keelШаблон:Cvt long and dull red. Flowering occurs in October and November and the fruit is a triangular podШаблон:Cvt long.[1][2][3]
Taxonomy and naming
Daviesia localis was first formally described in 2015 by Michael Clyde Hislop in the journal Nuytsia from specimens collected north of Bindoon in 2002.[3][4] The specific epithet (localis) means "local, belonging to a given place", referring to the restricted range of the species.[3]
Distribution and habitat
This daviesia grows is only known from a single population in the Bindoon area where it grows in forest.[1][2][3]
