Dillwynia sieberi?

Location & distribution maps

Common name:         ...

Conservation status: ...

Etymology:   

• The name Dillwynia honours Lewis Weston Dillwyn "whose scientific labours respecting the genus Conferva, as well as his knowledge in other abstruse parts of botany, merit such a memorial"

• The specific epithet (sieberi) honours Franz Sieber

• It was first formally described in 1840 by Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel in his book Nomenclator Botanicus

Flowers

• The flowers are arranged in racemes in up to ten leaf axils near the ends of branchlets, each flower on a pedicel about 3 mm long

• There are bracts and bracteoles about 1 mm long

• The sepals are 3–5 mm long and joined at the base, the upper lobes joined in a broad "lip"

• The flowers are yellow to yellow-orange with reddish-brown markings, the standard petal 5.5–9 mm long

• The wings are 5–9.2 mm long and the keel 4.5–6 mm long

• Flowering occurs from April to November 

Fruit:                            

• An oval pod 5–6 mm long with the remains of the petals attached

Leaves:         

• The leaves are linear, needle-shaped and sharply-pointed, 7–20 mm long and less than 1 mm wide

Stem & branches: 

Roots:         

Habit:        

• An erect shrub that typically grows to a height of 1–2 m with flattened hairs on the stems

Habitat:   

• Grows in forest and woodland and is widespread along the ranges

Distribution:                  

• Western slopes of NSWs and the ACT, and in coastal areas between Newcastle and Nowra

• It also occurs in south-eastern Queensland and a few places in south-eastern Victoria  

Additional notes:     

Sources of information:

•  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dillwynia_sieberi (2026)