Daviesia pleurophylla
Daviesia pleurophylla is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to a restricted area in the north of Western Australia. It is a large, openly-branched shrub with many ribbed branchlets, scattered, sharply-pointed, needle-shaped phyllodes, and yellow and dark red flowers. Description
Daviesia pleurophylla is an openly-branched shrub that typically grows to a height of up to  and has many ribbed branchlets. Its phyllodes are scattered, widely spreading, needle-shaped and sharply-pointed,  long and about  wide. The flowers are arranged in leaf axils in groups of two to four, the groups on a peduncle  long, the rachis up to  long, each flower on a pedicel  long with narrow oblong bracts about  long at the base. The sepals are  long and joined at the base with ten ribs and small teeth on the end. The standard petal is elliptic with a notched centre, about  long,  wide, and yellow and dark red. The wings are about  long and the keel about  long. Flowering has been observed in September and the fruit is a flattened, triangular pod  long. Taxonomy and naming
Daviesia pleurophylla was first formally described in 1995 by Michael Crisp in Australian Systematic Botany from specimens collected by Alex George in the Cape Range in 1970. The specific epithet (pleurophylla) means "rib-leaved". Distribution and habitat
This daviesia grows in open shrubland on deep sand and is only known from the Cape Range-Exmouth area in the north-west of Western Australia. Conservation status
Daviesia pleurophylla is listed as "Priority Two" by the Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, meaning that it is poorly known and from only one or a few locations. References

pleurophylla
Eudicots of Western Australia
Plants described in 1991
Taxa named by Michael Crisp