Daviesia physodes
Daviesia physodes is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to near-coastal areas of south-western Western Australia. It is an open shrub with verically flattened or tapering, sharply-pointed phyllodes, and yellow and pink to red flowers. Description
Daviesia physodes is an open, glabrous, usually glaucous shrub that typically grows to a height of up to . The phyllodes on the lower part of the plant are vertically flattened, wedge-shaped, up to  long and  high, those near the ends of the branchlets tapering and sharply pointed, up to  long and  wide. The flowers are arranged in groups of two to four on a peduncle about  long, the rachis about  long, each flower on a pedicel  long. The sepals are about  long, the upper two lobes joined for most of their length and the lower three about  long. The standard petal is broadly egg-shaped with a notched centre, about  long and  wide, yellow with pink tinge. The wings are  long and pink to red, the keel  long and pink to red. Flowering occurs from July to November and the fruit is an inflated, triangular pod  long. Taxonomy and naming
Daviesia physodes was first formally described in 1832 by George Don in his book A General History of Dichlamydeous Plants from an unpublished manuscript by Allan Cunningham. The specific epithet (physodes) means "a pair of bellows", referring to the bladdery fruit of this species. Distribution and habitat
This bitter-pea grows in open forest or kwongan between Geraldton, Augusta and Narrogin in near-coastal areas of the Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain biogeographic regions of south-western Western Australia. References

physodes
Flora of Western Australia
Plants described in 1832
Taxa named by George Don