Daviesia pedunculata
Daviesia pedunculata is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-western Western Australia. It is a spreading or sprawling to erect shrub with erect, egg-shaped to elliptic phyllodes, and yellow and maroon flowers. Description
Daviesia pedunculata is a spreading or sprawling to erect shrub that typically grows to a height of . Its phyllodes are erect, usually egg-shaped to elliptic, mostly  long,  high and usually sharply-pointed. The flowers are arranged in leaf axils on a raceme of three to eight flowers, the raceme on a peduncle  long, the rachis up to  long, each flower on a pedicel  long. The sepals are  long, the upper two lobes joined for most of their length and the lower three  long. The standard petal is broadly egg-shaped with a notched centre,  long and  wide, yellow with a maroon base around a yellow centre. The wings are about  long and maroon, the keel  long and maroon. Flowering occurs from July to December and the fruit is a flattened, triangular pod  long. Taxonomy and naming
Daviesia pedunculata was first formally described in 1839 by John Lindley from an unpublished description by George Bentham. Lindley's description was published in A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony. The specific epithet (pedunculata) means "pedunculate". Distribution and habitat
This bitter-pea grows in heathland near Kalbarri, around Eneabba and near Perth in the Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain biogeographic regions of south-western Western Australia. References

pedunculata
Flora of Western Australia
Plants described in 1839
Taxa named by John Lindley