Daviesia benthamii is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the west of Western Australia. It is an erect, bushy shrub with scattered, cylindrical, sharply pointed phyllodes, and yellow-orange and reddish-brown flowers.
Daviesia benthamii is an erect, bushy shrub that typically grows to a height of and has smooth, rigid branchlets. Its leaves are reduced to scattered, cylindrical, sharply-pointed phyllodes, long and wide. The flowers are arranged in groups of up to five in leaf axils on a peduncle long, each flower on a pedicel long with oblong bracts long at the base. The sepals are long, the standard petal yellow with a red base and about long, the wings orange-yellow with dull brown markings and long, the keel dull red and about long. Flowering occurs from July to September and the fruit is a flattened broadly egg-shaped or triangular pod long.[1]
Daviesia benthamii was first formally described in 1844 by Carl Meissner in Lehmann's Plantae Preissianae from specimens collected at the Swan River by James Drummond.[2] [3] The specific epithet (benthamii) honours George Bentham.[4]
This species of pea grows in mallee, woodland and shrubland and occurs from the Ningaloo Coast to the Darling Range in the south to Merredin in the east, in the Avon Wheatbelt, Carnarvon, Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Swan Coastal Plain and Yalgoo biogeographic regions in the west of Western Australia.
Daviesia benthamii is classified as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.