Daviesia brevifolia, commonly known as leafless bitter-pea,[1] is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the southern continental Australia. It is a broom-like shrub with short, cylindrical phyllodes and apricot to reddish-brown flowers.
Daviesia brevifolia is an erect, rigid, broom-like shrub that typically grows to a height of up to and has ascending, glabrous branchlets. Its leaves are reduced to cylindrical, sharply-pointed phyllodes long and wide at the base. The flowers are arranged in groups of three or four in leaf axils on a peduncle long with clusters of bracts about long at the base, each flower on a pedicel long. The sepals are long, the two upper lobes fused and the lower three triangular and about long. The petals are apricot to reddish-brown, the standard petal long, the wings long, and the keel long. Flowering occurs from August to October and the fruit is an inflated triangular pod long.[2] [3]
Daviesia brevifolia was first formally in 1838 described by John Lindley in Thomas Mitchell's journal, Three Expeditions into the interior of Eastern Australia.[4] [5] The specific epithet (brevifolia) means "short-leaved".[6]
Leafless bitter-pea grows in forest and woodland and heath in western Victoria and the south-east of South Australia.