Daviesia pteroclada
Daviesia pteroclada is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a leafless, broom-like, glabrous shrub, its branchlets modified as cladodes, and has orange and dark red flowers. Description
Daviesia pteroclada is a leafless, glabrous, broom-like shrub that typically grows to a height of . Its branchlets are erect and modified as winged or flattened cladodes  wide. The flowers are arranged in leaf axils in groups of two to four on a peduncle up to  long, each flower on a pedicel  long with spatula-shaped bracts about  long at the base. The sepals are  long and joined at the base the upper two lobes joined for most of their length and the lower three triangular and about  long. The standard petal is broadly elliptic,  long,  wide, orange grading to dark red near the base and fading to yellow. The wings are  long and red with a dark grey base, the keel  long and dark red. Flowering mainly occurs in July and August and the fruit is a flattened triangular pod  long. Taxonomy
Daviesia pteroclada was first formally described in 1995 by Michael Crisp in Australian Systematic Botany from specimens collected near Green Head by Charles Chapman in 1978. The specific epithet (pteroclada) means "winged shoot". Distribution and habitat
This daviesia grows in heathy woodland between Eneabba and Mount Lesueur in the Geraldton Sandplains biogeographic region of south-western Western Australia. Conservation status 
Daviesia pteroclada is listed as "Priority Three" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, meaning that it is poorly known and known from only a few locations but is not under imminent threat. References 

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