Dillwynia laxiflora
{{Short description|Species of legume}}
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|species = laxiflora
|authority = Benth.{{cite web|title=Dillwynia laxiflora|url= https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/106034|publisher=Australian Plant Census|access-date=4 June 2021}}
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Dillwynia laxiflora is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is a prostrate to spreading shrub with needle-shaped leaves and yellow and red flowers.
Description
Dillwynia laxiflora is a prostrate to spreading or scrambling shrub with mostly glabrous branches. The leaves are cylindrical, {{cvt|3.6–8|mm}} long and {{cvt|0.5–0.8|mm}} wide with a longitudinal groove on the upper surface. The flowers are mostly yellow or red with yellow or red markings, each flower on a pedicel {{cvt|3.5–4|mm}} long, the sepals hairy and {{cvt|3.5–5|mm}} long. The standard petal is {{cvt|8.5–10|mm}} long, the wings {{cvt|7–7.5|mm}} long and the keel {{cvt|5–6|mm}} long. There are ten stamens and the style is hairy and {{cvt|1.5–1.8|mm}} long. Flowering occurs in October and the fruit is a follicle that is not constricted between the seeds.{{FloraBase | name = Dillwynia laxiflora | id = 20367}}
Taxonomy
Dillwynia laxiflora was first described in 1837 by George Bentham in Charles von Hügel's Botanisches Archiv der Gartenbaugesellschaft der Ossterreichischen Kaiserstaates.{{cite web|title=Dillwynia laxiflora|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/535834 |publisher=APNI|access-date=4 June 2021}}{{cite journal |last1=Bentham |first1=George |last2=von Hugel |first2=Charles (ed.) |title=Dillwynia laxiflora |journal=Botanisches Archiv der Gartenbaugesellschaft der Ossterreichischen Kaiserstaates |date=1837 |volume=2 |url=https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/PPN74543939X_0002?tify={%22pages%22:[17],%22panX%22:0.463,%22panY%22:0.722,%22view%22:%22info%22,%22zoom%22:1.08} |access-date=4 June 2021}} The specific epithet (laxiflora) means "wide or open-flowered".{{cite book |last1=Sharr |first1=Francis Aubi |last2=George |first2=Alex |title=Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings |date=2019 |publisher=Four Gables Press |location=Kardinya, WA |isbn=9780958034180 |page=236 |edition=3rd}}
Distribution and habitat
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Category:Rosids of Western Australia