Daviesia laxiflora
Daviesia laxiflora is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Victoria, Australia. It is a large shrub or small tree with drooping branches, linear to narrow elliptic phyllodes and long racemes of mostly bright yellow flowers. Description
Daviesia laxiflora is a shrub or tree that typically grows to a height of up to , and has drooping branches. Its phyllodes are linear to narrowly elliptic,  long,  wide and wavy with minutely scalloped edges. The flowers are arranged in leaf axils on up to five racemes, each with many flowers on peduncles  long, the rachis usually  long, each flower on a pedicel  long with a bract  long at the base. The sepals are  long and joined at the base, the upper two lobes joined for most of their length and the lower three triangular and about  long. The standard petal is elliptic,  long and bright yellow with brownish-red markings, the wings  long and yellow with brownish-red markings, and the keel  long. Flowering occurs from October and January and the fruit is a strongly flattened, triangular pod  long. Taxonomy and naming
This daviesia was first formally described in 1957 by James Hamlyn Willis who gave it the name Daviesia corymbosa var. laxiflora in The Victorian Naturalist from specimens he collected in 1940. In 1991, Michael Crisp raised the variety to species status as Daviesia laxiflora in Australian Systematic Botany. The specific epithet (laxiflora) means "loose-flowered". Distribution and habitat
Daviesia laxiflora mostly grows in moist, montane forests at altitudes of  in eastern Victoria, with a disjunct population at Wilsons Promontory . References

laxiflora
Flora of Victoria (state)
Plants described in 1957
Taxa named by James Hamlyn Willis