Daviesia retrorsa
Daviesia retrorsa is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is a dense, tangled shrub with glabrous branchlets and leaves, scattered, needle-like, sharply pointed phyllodes turned backwards, and orange-yellow and red flowers. Description Daviesia retrorsa is a glabrous shrub that typically grows up to high and wide, and has many tangled branchlets. Its phyllodes are scattered, needle-like, long, wide, sharply pointed and turned backwards. The flowers are arranged in leaf axils in a group of two to five flowers on a peduncle long, the rachis long, each flower on a pedicel long with oblong bracts about long. The sepals are long and joined at the base, the upper two lobes joined for most of their length, the lower three triangular. The standard petal is egg-shaped with a notched tip, long, wide, and orange-yellow with a red base and yellow centre. The wings are long and light red, the keel long. Flowering occurs from August to November and the fruit is a slightly inflated, triangular, purplish-grey pod long. Taxonomy Daviesia retrorsa was first formally described in 1995 by Michael Crisp in Australian Systematic Botany from specimens collected by Mark