Sphaerolobium daviesioides

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Sphaerolobium daviesioides, commonly known as prickly globe-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is an erect, rigid, leafless shrub with orange or yellow and red flowers from August to October.{{FloraBase|name=Sphaerolobium daviesioides |id=4201}}

It was first formally described in 1853 by Nikolai Turczaninow in the Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou.{{cite journal|last1=Turczaninow|first1=Nikolai|title=Sphaerolobium daviesioides|journal=Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou|date=1853|volume=26|issue=1|pages=266–267 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/107140#page/272/mode/1up|accessdate=19 June 2022}}{{cite web|title=Sphaerolobium daviesioides|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/503348 |publisher=APNI|access-date=19 June 2022}} The specific epithet (daviesioides) means "Daviesia-like".{{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=179 |edition=3rd}}

Sphaerolobium daviesioides grows on sandplain in the Esperance Plains, Hampton and Mallee bioregions of southern Western Australia and is listed as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.