Daviesia cunderdin, commonly known as Cunderdin daviesia,[1] is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to a restricted area in the south-west of Western Australia. It is a compact, densely-branched shrub with scattered, elliptic to egg-shaped phyllodes, and uniformly red flowers.
Daviesia cunderdin is a compact, densely-branched shrub that typically grows to a height of and has softly hairy branchlets. Its leaves are reduced to scattered, elliptic to egg-shaped phyllodes mostly long and wide. The flowers are mostly arranged singly in leaf axils on a pedicel long with oblong bracts long at the base. The sepals are long and joined at the base, the two upper lobes joined for most of their length and the lower three triangular and about long. The flowers are uniformly red, the standard broadly egg-shaped to elliptic, long and about wide, the wings elliptic and long and the keel long. Flowering occurs in May and June and the fruit is a triangular pod about long.[2]
Daviesia cunderdin was first formally described in 1997 by Michael Crisp and Gregory T. Chandler in Australian Systematic Botany from specimens collected near Cunderdin in 1996.[3] The specific epithet (cunderdin) refers to the type location.[4]
Cunderdin daviesia grows in disturbed sites with kwongan vegetation and is only known from the type location in the Avon Wheatbelt biogeographic region of south-western Western Australia.
This daviesia has been classified as "Threatened Flora (Declared Rare Flora — Extant)" by the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions and an Interim Recovery Plan has been prepared.