Dillwynia juniperina
Lodd. Prickly ParrotpeaDivaricate shrub, 1–2 m tall; stems appressed-pubescent, also often with longer diverging hairs. Leaves linear, 7–18 mm long, c. 0.5–0.9 mm wide, moderately crowded, spreading to reflexed, sessile, trigonous, usually glabrous, apex acuminate and pungent. Flowers in terminal and upper-axillary, 2–10-flowered racemes; pedicel c. 3 mm long. Calyx 3–5 mm long, hairy, lower lobes sometimes minutely pungent, much shorter than calyx tube; petals persistent after anthesis; standard 5.5–9 mm long, notched, yellow; wings slightly shorter, obovate, yellow; keel shortest, obtuse, red. Pod ovoid, c. 5–6 mm long, c. 4 mm wide, almost glabrous or sparsely covered with long hairs; seeds 1 or 2, reniform Flowers Aug.–Nov.
VRiv, GipP, CVU, NIS, EGL, EGU, HSF, HNF, MonT. Also NSW. Scattered in drier parts of north-central, north-east and eastern Victoria. Usually found in drier forests and woodlands, usually on hillsides and ridges in poor skeletal soils.
As well as the sessile (vs shortly petiolate) leaves, D. juniperina can be distinguished from D. sieberi by the indumentum on new growth consistently of mixed appressed and longer diverging hairs. The young growth of D. sieberi has an wholly appressed indumentum, or rarely, with scattered longer, spreading hairs (Albrecht & Crisp 1993).
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.
SpinningAlbrecht, D.E.; Crisp, M.D. (1993). Dillwynia sieberi distinguished from D. juniperina (Fabaceae: Mirbelieae) in south-eastern Australia.. *Muelleria * 8(1): 47–50.
