Daviesia genistifolia
Daviesia genistifolia, commonly known as broom bitter-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is a glabrous, low to open shrub with scattered, sharply-pointed, cylindrical phyllodes and yellow or orange-yellow, deep red and maroon flowers. Description
Daviesia genistifolia is a glabrous, low to open shrub that typically grows to a height of . The phyllodes are cylindrical, sharply-pointed,  long and  wide at the base. The flowers are arranged in groups of two to six in leaf axils on a peduncle  long, the rachis , each flower on a pedicel  long with oblong bracts about  long. The sepals are  long and joined at the base, the upper two lobes joined for most of their length, the lower three with shallow teeth  long. The standard petal is egg-shaped,  long,  wide and yellow or orange-yellow, with a dark red base, the wings  long and deep red, and the keel   long and maroon. Flowering occurs from August to October and the fruit is a flattened triangular pod  long. Taxonomy
Daviesia genistifolia was first formally described in 1837 by George Bentham from an unpublished description by Allan Cunningham. Bentham's description was published in his Commentationes de Leguminosarum Generibus. Distribution and habitat
Broom bitter-pea grows in dry forests and is widespread in south-eastern Australia from central Queensland through New South Wales to eastern Victoria and the Flinders Ranges in South Australia. References

genistifolia
Flora of South Australia
Flora of Queensland
Flora of the Australian Capital Territory
Flora of New South Wales
Flora of Victoria (state)
Taxa named by George Bentham
Plants described in 1837