Daviesia latifolia
R.Br. Hop Bitter-peaSlender erect shrub 1–5 m tall; branches arching, glabrous, glaucous; branchlets angular. Phyllodes narrow- to broad-elliptic or ovate, or lanceolate, 2–15 cm long, 5–70 mm wide, grey-green, coriaceous, margins minutely crenate, undulate, apex rounded to acuminate, base usually abruptly contracted to an articulate petiole-like base 3–20 mm long; midrib prominent, venation reticulate, prominent. Inflorescences 1–3 per axil, racemose, many-flowered, rachis 25–80 mm long; peduncle 5–25 mm long; pedicels 1.5–4 mm long, subtended by an ovate or elliptic bract 2–4 mm long. Calyx 3–5 mm long including 0.6–1 mm receptacle, upper 2 teeth united into a nearly entire lip; corolla mostly orange-yellow; standard broadly ovate, 6–9 mm long, 7–9.5 mm wide, orange-yellow with a maroon marking. Pod obliquely triangular, 6–11 mm long, 4–7 mm wide; seeds compressed ellipsoid, c. 3 mm long. Flowers Sep.–Dec
Wim, GleP, Brid, VVP, VRiv, GipP, OtP, WaP, Gold, CVU, GGr, DunT, NIS, EGL, EGU, WPro, HSF, HNF, Strz, MonT, HFE, VAlp. Also Qld, NSW, Tas. Widespread plant of dry sclerophyll forests, common across much of the state but apparently most abundant in the east where ascending to c. 1800 m.
Possible hybrids with Daviesia leptophylla and D. buxifolia have been observed in Victoria.
Jeanes, J.A. (1996). Fabaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 663–829. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
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