Daviesia laxiflora

Large shrub or small tree to 10 m tall; branches ascending, glabrous, more or less glaucous; branchlets angular. Phyllodes linear to narrow-elliptic, 4–16 cm long, 5–30 mm wide, dark green, margins minutely crenate, undulate, apex acute, base tapering gradually to an articulate petiole-like extension 3–15 mm long; midrib and pinnate secondary venation prominent, tertiary venation coarsely reticulate, inconspicuous. Inflorescences 1–5 per axil, racemose, many-flowered, lax, rachis usually 40–120 mm long; peduncle 7–15 mm long; pedicels 1–7 mm long, subtended by a subulate appressed bract usually 1–2 mm long. Calyx 4.5–5.5 mm long including c. 1.5 mm receptacle, upper 2 teeth united into a nearly entire lip; corolla mostly bright yellow; standard transversely broadly elliptic, 8.5–10.5 mm long, 9.5–11.5 mm wide, bright yellow with a brownish-red marking. Pod obliquely triangular, 7–10 mm long, 5–7 mm wide; seeds compressed ellipsoid, 2.5–3.5 mm long. Flowers Oct.–Jan.