Daviesia elliptica
Daviesia elliptica, commonly known as wild hops, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an open, usually multi-stemmed shrub with scattered, narrowly elliptic to egg-shaped phyllodes, and yellow and red to maroon flowers. Description
Daviesia elliptica is an open, usually multi-stemmed. glabrous shrub that typically grows to a height of  and has arching branches. Its leaves are reduced to crowded, elliptic phyllodes  long,  wide and glossy green. The flowers are arranged in one or two groups of four to ten on a peduncle  long, the rachis  long, each flower on a pedicel  long with awl-shaped 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 standard is broadly egg-shaped with a notch at the tip, about  long,  wide and yellow with a dark red to maroon base, the wings about  long and yellow and maroon, and the keel about  long and dark red. Flowering occurs from September to November and the fruit is a flattened, triangular pod  long. Taxonomy and naming
Daviesia elliptica was first formally described in 1991 by Michael Crisp in Australian Systematic Botany from specimens collected near Tenterfield in 1984. The specific epithet (elliptica) means "elliptic". Distribution and habitat
Wild hops grows in the understorey of forest on sandy soils derived from granite from Dalveen in south-eastern Queensland to Guyra on the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales. Conservation status
Daviesia elliptica is listed as of "least concern" under the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992. References

elliptica
Flora of Queensland
Flora of New South Wales
Plants described in 1991
Taxa named by Michael Crisp