Daviesia speciosa
Daviesia speciosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a low, erect, spindly, glabrous shrub with needle-shaped phyllodes almost indistinguishable from the branchlets, and red flowers. Description
Daviesia speciosa is an erect, spindly, glabrous shrub that typically grows to a height of up to  and has many erect stems. Its phyllodes are tapering needle-shaped, almost indistinguishable from the branchlets and sharply pointed,  long and about  wide. The flowers are arranged singly or in pairs in leaf axils on a peduncle  long, the rachis  long, each flower on a thread-like pedicel  long with linear bracts  long at the base. The sepals are about  long and joined at the base, the five lobes about  long. The flowers are red, and apparently bird-pollinated, the standard petal egg-shaped, turned back through a small angle, about  long and  wide. The wings are  long, and the keel  long. Flowering occurs in April and May. Taxonomy
Daviesia speciosa was first formally described in 1995 by Michael Crisp in Australian Systematic Botany from specimens collected in 1958 by Charles Chapman near Eneabba. The specific epithet (speciosa) means "showy". Distribution and habitat
This daviesia grows in heath between Eneabba and Mingenew in the Avon Wheatbelt and Geraldton Sandplains biogeographic regions of south-western Western Australia. Conservation status
Daviesia speciosa is classified as "Threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, meaning that it is in danger of extinction. References

speciosa
Taxa named by Michael Crisp
Plants described in 1995
Flora of Western Australia