Daviesia reclinata is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to northern Australia. It is a prostrate or straggling shrub with scattered linear phyllodes, and yellow flowers.
Daviesia reclinata is a glabrous, prostrate or straggling shrub that typically grows to a height of up to . The phyllodes are scattered, sometimes reduced to scales, linear to elliptic, long and wide. The flowers are arranged in leaf axils and on the ends of branches, usually in racemes of five to ten widely-spaced yellow flowers. The racemes in leaf axils are on a peduncle long, the rachis long, each flower on a pedicel long with bracts about long at the base. The sepals are long, joined at the base and prominently ribbed, the upper two lobes oblong, about long, the lower three long. The standard petal is broadly egg-shaped, long, wide, the wings about long, and the keel about long. Flowering occurs throughout the year and the fruit is a flattened triangular pod long.[1] [2]
Daviesia reclinata was first formally described in 1837 by George Bentham from an unpublished manuscript by Allan Cunningham. Bentham's description was published in Flora Australiensis.[3] [4] The specific epithet (reclinata) means "leaning back, referring to the branches".[5]
This bitter-pea grows in forest or woodland on stony or sandy soil and is found the Kimberley region of Western Australian and the Top End of the Northern Territory. Michael Crisp considers populations formerly known as D. reclinata on the Cape York Peninsula of Queensland, to be D. flava.