Dillwynia uncinata, commonly known as silky parrot-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to southern Australia. It is an erect, spreading shrub with cylindrical leaves and yellow flowers with a red centre.
Dillwynia uncinata is an erect, spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of about and has silky-hairy upper stems. The leaves are cylindrical, mostly long, about wide on a petiole up to long. The flowers are arranged in more or less sessile groups of two to five, each flower on a pedicel long. The sepals are hairy, long and the standard petal is long and yellow with a red centre. The wings are slightly shorter and the keel shortest and reddish. Flowering occurs from September to November.[1] [2]
This species was first formally described in 1853 by Nikolai Turczaninow in Bulletin de la Société impériale des naturalistes de Moscou[3] and was given the name Eutaxia uncinata.[4] In 1916, John McConnell Black changed the name to Dillwynia uncinata in the Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia.[5] [6] The specific epithet (uncinata) means "hooked" or "barbed", referring to the leaves.[7]
This dillwynia grows in heath, on dunes and in swampy areas in the south-west of Western Australia, in south-eastern South Australia and in the north-west of Victoria.
Dillwynia uncinata is classified as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife.