Daviesia eurylobos
Daviesia eurylobos is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a spreading shrub with somewhat crowded, egg-shaped to elliptic phyllodes, and yellow and red flowers. Description
Daviesia eurylobos is a shrub that typically grows to a height of up to  and has spreading branches. Its leaves are reduced to somewhat crowded, egg-shaped to elliptic phyllodes  long and  wide. The flowers are mostly arranged singly or in pairs in leaf axils on a pedicel  long with egg-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 and about  long. The standard petal is broadly elliptic,  long,  wide and yellow with red markings, the wings elliptic and  long and the keel  long. Flowering occurs in July and August and the fruit is a broadly triangular pod  long. Taxonomy and naming
Daviesia eurylobos was first formally described in 1997 by Michael Crisp and Gregory T. Chandler in Australian Systematic Botany from specimens collected  north-east of Ravensthorpe in 1979. The specific epithet (eurylobos) means "wide pod". Distribution and habitat
This daviesia grows in heathland and mallee and is found between Ravensthorpe, Lake King, Peak Charles National Park and Jerdacuttup in the Esperance plains and Mallee biogeographic regions of south-western Western Australia. Conservation status
Daviesia eurylobos is listed as "not threatened" by the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions

References

eurylobos
Eudicots of Western Australia
Plants described in 1997
Taxa named by Michael Crisp