Family: Fabaceae-Faboideae
Plant: An erect bushy shrub up to 2m high.
Flowers: Broad lobed yellow pea flowers with red markings, 10-15mm wide, kidney-shaped standard petal broader than long. Flowers stalkless or nearly so and crowded towards ends of erect branches.
Flowering: July-October.
Fruit: Ovoid or rounded pods 4-7mm long
Leaves: Linear and flat 5-15mm long, crowded, rough to the touch and sometimes twisted.
Habitat: Wet and moist sandy soils in dry sclerophyll forest and heathland.
Features: Yellow and red stalkless pea flowers with a kidney-shaped standard petal and crowded towards the ends of the stems.
Name:
Dillwynia After the English botanist Lewis Weston Dillwyn
floribunda From Latin = abundant-flowers
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Type |
Shrub |
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Flowers |
Form |
Irregular, Pea, Single |
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Colour(s) |
Yellow, Red |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
4, 5 |
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Flowering Month |
7, 8, 9, 10, |
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Fruit |
Type |
Pod |
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Colour |
Green, Brown |
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Other Features |
- |
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Leaves |
Arrangement |
Alternate, Crowded |
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Type |
Simple |
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Shape |
Linear |
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Length |
Tiny, Short |
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Margins |
Entire |
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Attachment |
Unstalked |
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Other Features |
Rough |
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Bark |
- |
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Habitat |
Dry sclerophyll forest, Heathland |
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