Daviesia alata is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern New South Wales. It is a prostrate to low-lying shrub with winged branchlets that are triangular in cross-section, phyllodes reduced to scales, and orange, red, yellow and maroon flowers.
Daviesia alata is a prostrate or low-lying shrub that typically spreads up to in diameter with stems up to long. The branchlets are triangular in cross-section, winged and dark green. The phyllodes are reduced to scales on mature plants but are egg-shaped to linear, long and wide on young plants. The flowers are arranged in leaf axils in groups of two to five on a peduncle long, each flower on a pedicel about long. The five sepals are long, the lobes about long. The standard petal is orange-red with a yellow centre, long, the wings maroon and about long and the keel maroon and about long. Flowering occurs from October to December and the fruit is a flattened triangular pod long.[1] [2] [3] [4]
Daviesia alata was first formally described in 1808 by James Edward Smith in Rees's Cyclopædia from specimens collected "near Port Jackson".[5] [6]
This pea grows in heath and forest on the coast and ranges of south-eastern New South Wales between Nelson Bay, the Budawangs and the Blue Mountains.