Daviesia epiphyllum
Daviesia epiphyllum, commonly known as staghorn bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a rigid, erect, spreading, glabrous shrub with flattened, staghorn-shaped phylloclades with sharply-pointed lobes, and yellowish-red flowers. Description
Daviesia epiphyllum is a rigid, erect and spreading, glabrous shrub that typically grows to a height of . Its branches are reduced to flattened, staghorn-shaped phylloclades  wide, the leaves reduced to oblong phyllodes  long and  wide with cuspidate, sharply-pointed tips. The flowers are arranged in groups of three to seven on a peduncle  long, the rachis  long, each flower on a pedicel  long with many overlapping bracts about  long at the base. The sepals are  long and joined at the base, the two upper lobes joined for most of their length and the lower three triangular. The flowers are yellowish-red, the standard broadly elliptic with a deep notch,  long and  wide, the wings about  long, and the keel about  long. Flowering occurs from January to May and the fruit is a leathery, triangular pod  long. Taxonomy and naming
Daviesia epiphyllum was first formally described in 1855 by Carl Meissner in Botanische Zeitung from specimens collected by James Drummond. The specific epithet (epiphyllum) means "upon a leaf", referring to the flowers growing from the phylloclades. Distribution and habitat
Staghorn bush grows on sandplains in heathland between Bullsbrook, Eneabba and Moora  in the Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains and Swan Coastal Plain biogeographic regions of south-western Western Australia. Conservation status
Daviesia epiphyllum is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions. References

epiphyllum
Eudicots of Western Australia
Plants described in 1855
Taxa named by Carl Meissner