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Dillwynia elegans Endl.
Family Fabaceae
Subfamily Faboideae
Dillwynia elegans Endl. APNI*

Synonyms: Dillwynia floribunda var. teretifolia (DC.) Blakely APNI*

Description: Erect shrub 0.2–2.0 m high; stems hairy with short appressed hairs, especially when young, becoming glabrous with age.

Leaves usually crowded, terete to subterete, linear, 5–22 mm long, smooth or sparsely hairy with tuberculate-based hairs or rarely hairs coarsely tuberculate-based, apex shortly acuminate and often incurved, glabrous or occasionally with hairs.

Inflorescences usually 2-flowered, in the upper axils and often extending well down the branches, pedunculate; bracts 1–2 mm long, bracteoles 0.5–1 mm long, both ovate to lanceolate, often folded, glabrous with ciliate margins and tuft of hairs near apex. Calyx 4–7 mm long, glabrous. Standard 4–7 mm long.

Pods 5–7 mm long; seeds smooth.


Habitat
Photo A.E. Orme

Habit
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Flower
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Fruit
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Herbarium
Sheet

Distribution and occurrence: Grows on rocky sandstone ridges in heath to dry sclerophyll forest; from Port Jackson to east of Rylstone.
NSW subdivisions: CC, CT, CWS
AVH map***

Text by P.H. Weston & P.C. Jobson
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APNI* Provides a link to the Australian Plant Name Index (hosted by the Australian National Botanic Gardens) for comprehensive bibliographic data
***The AVH map option provides a detailed interactive Australia wide distribution map drawn from collections held by all major Australian herbaria participating in the Australian Virtual Herbarium project.
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