Daviesia discolor
Daviesia discolor is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Queensland. It is a glabrous, multi-stemmed shrub with linear, more or less sickle-shaped phyllodes, and yellow and dark red flowers. Description
Daviesia discolor is a glabrous, multi-stemmed shrub that typically grows to a height of up to . Its leaves are reduced to linear to elliptic, more or less sickle-shaped phyllodes  long,  wide and striated, the lower surface a paler shade of green. The flowers are arranged in one or two groups of three to eight on a peduncle  long, the rachis  long, each flower on a pedicel  long with narrowly oblong bracts about  long at the base. The sepals are  long and joined at the base, the two upper lobes joined for part of their length and the lower three triangular. The standard is broadly egg-shaped,  long,  wide and yellow with a red base, the wings  long and yellow with a dull red base, and the keel  long and pale green with a dull red tip. Flowering occurs from August and October and the fruit is a flattened, triangular pod  long. Taxonomy and naming
Daviesia discolor was first formally described in 1977 by Leslie Pedley in the journal Austrobaileya. The specific epithet (discolor) means "variegated". Distribution and habitat
This species of pea grows in open forest on ridges, slopes and creek banks in the Blackdown Tableland National Park, near Biggenden and in the Carnarvon National Park. Conservation status
Daviesia discolor is listed as "vulnerable" under the Australian Government Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 and the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992. References

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Flora of Queensland
Plants described in 1977