Daviesia nova-anglica Crisp APNI* 
Description: Shrub with arching branches, to 2 m high; hispid on branchlets, minutely so on midrib and margins of phyllodes.
Phyllodes ovate or narrow-ovate, 5–12 mm long, 2.5–6 mm wide, pungent, apex acute or short-acuminate, base subcordate to rounded; margins sometimes recurved; midrib prominent on upper surface; venation obscure.
Racemes 1- or rarely 2-flowered; flower stalks 4–10 mm long; upper bracts 1.0–1.5 mm long, 0.5–0.8 mm wide. Calyx 2.7–3.0 mm long including 0.5–0.8 mm receptacle; upper 2 teeth united in a truncate emarginate lip.
Pod 6–7 mm long, c. 5 mm wide.
Flowering: August–October
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in dry sclerophyll forest, heath or woodland on sandy soil; New England escarpment from Tenterfield to headwaters of the Hastings R., also near Warialda.
NSW subdivisions: NC, NT, NWS
Other Australian states: ?Qld
Text by M. D. Crisp
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 2 (1991)
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