Daviesia brevifolia

Broom-like shrub to 1 m tall; branches glabrous; branchlets rigid, terete, 1.5–2 mm thick, grey-green, striate, often somewhat flexuose. Juvenile leaves sometimes present, obovate, 2-lobed. Phyllodes terete, 2–5 mm long, green, oblique to stem, tip recurved, pungent, base continuous with stem. Inflorescences 1–few per axil, racemose, mostly 1–4-flowered, rachis 1–3 mm long; peduncle 0–1 mm long; pedicels to 1–2 mm long, subtended by an ovate bract to c. 0.5 mm long. Calyx 3–4 mm long including c. 1 mm receptacle, teeth short, triangular to apiculate, fimbriate, upper 2 almost united into an obtuse lip; corolla apricot to reddish-brown; standard transverse-elliptic, c. 5 mm long, c. 7 mm wide, striate, apricot or reddish grading to a darker centre. Pod obliquely triangular, c. 15 mm long, c. 10 mm wide, inflated; seeds reniform, 3–4 mm long, rounded. Flowers Aug.–Oct.