Daviesia pauciflora
Daviesia pauciflora is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is an open shrub with many stems, flattened, linear phyllodes, and mostly yellow flowers with red, orange and dull brownish markings. Description. "Daviesia pauciflora" is an open shrub that typically grows to a height of up to about and has many ribbed stems. Its phyllodes are scattered and erect, linear and flattened, up to long and wide with parallel ribs. The flowers are arranged in leaf axils in racemes of up to three, the raceme on  a peduncle long, the rachis up to long, each flower on a pedicel long with egg-shaped bracts long at the base. The sepals are long and joined for most of their length apart from five small lobes. The standard petal is broadly elliptic with a notched centre, about long, wide, and mostly yellow with a red base and yellow centre. The wings are about long and dark red with orange tips, the keel about long and dull brownish. Flowering occurs from October to January and the fruit is a flattened, triangular pod long. Taxonomy and naming. "Daviesia pauciflora" was  first formally described in 1995 by Michael Crisp in "Australian Systematic Botany" from specimens collected by Anthony Orchard near Esperance in 1968. The specific epithet ("pauciflora") means "few-flowered". Distribution and habitat. This daviesia grows in tall, dense heath from near Munglinup to Esperance in the Esperance Plains and Mallee biogeographic regions in the south of Western Australia. Conservation status. "Daviesia pauciflora" 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. Daviesia pauciflora