Daviesia decipiens
Daviesia decipiens is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an intricately-branched shrub with scattered, sharply-pointed oblong or tapering phyllodes, and orange, maroon and crimson flowers. Description
Daviesia decipiens is an intricately-branched, glabrous shrub that typically grows to a height of up to . Its leaves are reduced to scattered, sharply-pointed oblong or tapering phyllodes  long and  wide. The flowers are arranged singly or in pairs in leaf axils on a peduncle  long, each flower on a pedicel  long with bracts about  long at the base. The sepals are  long and joined at the base, the two upper lobes forming a broad lip and the lower three triangular. The standard petal is elliptic,  long,  wide and orange with maroon markings, the wings  long and red, and the keel  long and crimson. Flowering occurs from June to September and the fruit is an inflated, triangular pod  long. Taxonomy and naming
This daviesia was first formally described in 1904 by Ernst Georg Pritzel who gave it the name Daviesia pectinata var. decipiens in the Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie. In 1995, Michael Crisp raised the variety to species status as Daviesia decipiens. The specific epithet (decipiens) means "deceiving". Distribution and habitat
Daviesia decipiens grows in woodland, mallee and kwongan between Chidlow, Narrogin, Kalgan and Ravensthorpe in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest and Mallee biogeographic regions of south-western Western Australia. Conservation status
Daviesia decipiens is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions. References

decipiens
Eudicots of Western Australia
Plants described in 1904
Taxa named by Ernst Pritzel