Daviesia cardiophylla
Daviesia cardiophylla is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is an erect, spreading shrub with heart-shaped, sharply pointed phyllodes and yellow and red flowers. Description
Daviesia cardiophylla is an erect shrub with widely spreading branchlets and that typically grows to a height of . Its leaves are reduced to heart-shaped, sometimes egg-shaped phyllodes, mostly  long and  wide with a sharply-pointed tip. The flowers are arranged singly or in pairs in leaf axils, each flower on a pedicel  long with egg-shaped bracts about  long at the base. The sepals are  long and joined at the base, the upper lobes joined for most of their length. The standard petal is yellow or orange with a red centre,  long and about  wide, the wings red and  long and the keel pale red and  long. Flowering occurs from May to August and the fruit is a pod  long. Taxonomy and naming
Daviesia cardiophylla was first formally described in 1860 by Ferdinand von Mueller in Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae from specimens collected by Augustus Oldfield. The specific epithet (cardiophylla) means "heart-leaved". Distribution and habitat
This species of pea grows in woodland in flat or undulating country mainly in the central and southern wheatbelt, in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest and Mallee biogeographic regions of south-western Western Australia. Conservation status
Daviesia cardiophylla is classified as "not threatened" by the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions. References

cardiophylla
Eudicots of Western Australia
Plants described in 1860
Taxa named by Ferdinand von Mueller