Daviesia gracilis is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an open, spreading shrub with its phyllodes reduced to scales, and has orange-yellow and maroon flowers.
Daviesia gracilis is an open, spreading, glabrous shrub that typically grows to a height of up to, its phyllodes reduced to scales. The flowers are arranged in groups of three to five on a peduncle long, the rachis long, each flower on a pedicel long with oblong, overlapping bracts about long at the base. The sepals are about long and joined at the base. The standard petal is elliptic, long and orange-yellow with a thin maroon border, the wings about long and maroon, and the keel is long and maroon. Flowering occurs from July to October and the fruit is a flattened triangular pod long.[1]
Daviesia gracilis was first formally described in 1984 by Michael Crisp in the journal Nuytsia from specimens collected by Archibald Menzies at King George Sound in 1791.[2] The specific epithet (gracilis) means "thin or slender".[3]
This daviesia grows in heath or open woodland between Kojonup, King George Sound and Bremer Bay in the Esperance Plains and Jarrah Forest regions of south-western Western Australia.
Daviesia gracilis is listed as "not threatened" by the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.