Daviesia genistifolia, commonly known as broom bitter-pea,[1] is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is a glabrous, low to open shrub with scattered, sharply-pointed, cylindrical phyllodes and yellow or orange-yellow, deep red and maroon flowers.
Daviesia genistifolia is a glabrous, low to open shrub that typically grows to a height of . The phyllodes are cylindrical, sharply-pointed, long and wide at the base. The flowers are arranged in groups of two to six in leaf axils on a peduncle long, the rachis, each flower on a pedicel long with oblong bracts about long. The sepals are long and joined at the base, the upper two lobes joined for most of their length, the lower three with shallow teeth long. The standard petal is egg-shaped, long, wide and yellow or orange-yellow, with a dark red base, the wings long and deep red, and the keel long and maroon. Flowering occurs from August to October and the fruit is a flattened triangular pod long.[2] [3] [4]
Daviesia genistifolia was first formally described in 1837 by George Bentham from an unpublished description by Allan Cunningham. Bentham's description was published in his Commentationes de Leguminosarum Generibus.[5]
Broom bitter-pea grows in dry forests and is widespread in south-eastern Australia from central Queensland through New South Wales to eastern Victoria and the Flinders Ranges in South Australia.