Daviesia microphylla
Daviesia microphylla is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an openly-branched, sprawling shrub with spiny branchlets, crowded, sharply-pointed, egg-shaped phyllodes, and orange, dark red and maroon flowers. Description
Daviesia microphylla is an openly-branched, sprawling shrub, typically up to  high and  wide with sharply-ridged, spiny branchlets. Its phyllodes are crowded, partly overlapping, vertically flattened, egg-shaped and sharply pointed, mostly  long and  wide. The flowers are arranged singly in leaf axils on a peduncle mostly  long with bracts  long at the base. The sepals are  long and joined at the base, the two upper lobes joined for most of their length, the three lower lobes triangular and up to  long. The standard petal is broadly egg-shaped with a notched tip,  long and orange with a dark red sentre, the wings  long and maroon, and the keel about  long and maroon. Flowering occurs from June to August and the fruit is an inflated, triangular pod  long. Taxonomy and naming
Daviesia microphylla was first formally described in 1864 by George Bentham in Flora Australiensis from specimens collected by James Drummond. The specific epithet (microphylla) means "small-leaved", referring to the phyllodes. Distribution and habitat
This daviesia grows in woodland or low heath and is found in the eastern Darling Range, but had a more extensive range in the past. Conservation status
Daviesia microphylla is listed as "not threatened" by the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions. References

microphylla
Eudicots of Western Australia
Plants described in 1864
Taxa named by George Bentham