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Telopea 9(2): 2001 
[Dillwynici sp. A. in Weston (1990)] 
Erect, single-stemmed shrub 0.5-2.5 m high. Bark slightly fissured, red-brown to dark 
brown becoming grey to black with age, with olive flanges (the remnants of the 
persistent decurrent leaf bases). Branches and branchlets with prominent flanges 
(from persistent decurrent leaf bases), light brown to yellow-brown, branchlets 
occasionally grey, with antrorse appressed white hairs 0.1-0.5 mm long, occasionally 
glabrous. Leaves ascending to loosely antrorse-appressed, linear, subterete, slightly 
keeled, covered with dirty white hairs when young, becoming glabrous with age, 
occasionally retaining white antrorse hairs on lower surface of the basal half of the 
leaf, colliculate to papillate, often clustered towards upper ends of branches; young 
leaves lime green; petiole 0.75-1.75 mm long, yellow; decurrent leaf bases yellow and 
covered with dirty white hairs, becoming glabrous with age, often colliculate at 
swollen apex, 0.5-2.0 mm long; lamina with a longitudinal adaxial groove, curving 
concavely, 0.6-1.9 cm long, 0.75-1.0 mm wide; apex mucronate, mucro (0.25-)0.5-0.75 
(-1.0) mm long, yellow or with brown tip; stipules present, inconspicuous, brown to 
black, scarious, c. 0.25 mm long. Inflorescences terminal, 3-18-flowered. Pedicels 
covered in silky white hairs, 1-3 mm long; peduncles absent; rachis covered in silky 
white hairs, 3.0-6.5 mm long. Bracts broad-ovate, c. 2 mm long, often caducous before 
anthesis; apex acuminate; adaxial surface covered in long, silky white to light red- 
brown hairs; abaxial surface glabrous, dark red-brown. Bracteoles broad-ovate, 
attached to pedicel 0.5-2.0 mm below calyx tube, c. 1.5 mm long; margins coarsely 
fimbriate in lower half; apex recurved outwards and scarious, dark brown to black; 
adaxial surface covered in long, silky, white to dirty white hairs; abaxial surface 
glabrous except for a tuft of white hairs at base, red-brown, colliculate. Buds grey with 
blackish lobes, upper calyx lobes deeply cucullate. Calyx grey to greyish black, often 
with the calyx lobes black, covered with grey to dirty white hairs, 3.5-6.0 mm long, 
ribs inconspicuous; calyx tube campanulate; lobes shorter than or roughly equal to 
tube; lower lobes broad-acute to triangular; upper lobes v-shaped notched, strongly 
divergent, margins with white crisped hairs. Standard with basal narrow rectangular 
claw and lamina broad-ovate with a shallow U-notch separating lobes; lamina concave 
with undulating margin, 6.0-9.0 mm long, 8.0-14.0 mm wide; lobes broad-obovate to 
almost circular, yellow with narrow red band (crescent) and occasional veining above 
claw; claw yellow, occasionally with a longitudinal groove, 2.0-3.0 mm long, 0.5-1.25 mm 
wide. Wings oblong to broad-obovate, completely obscuring the keel, imbricate, 
obtuse, occasionally emarginate towards upper margin, yellow at apex grading to rosy 
pink midway to base, base often cream; lamina 6.0-9.0 mm long, 3.0-5.0 mm wide; 
claw 2.5—3.5 mm wide. Keel linear-lanceolate in overview, spathulate in lateral view, 
with apex cucullate, shortly acute, yellow-green at apex grading to rosy pink or red 
midway to base and yellow-green at base, 4.5-6.5 mm long, 2.0-3.0 mm wide; upper 
margin papillate; claw c. 2 mm long. Stamens articulated onto a sessile basal ring, 
filaments 3.0-5.5 mm long; anthers 0.5-1.0 mm long. Gynoecium 5.0-6.5 mm long; 
ovary white-pubescent, 2.0-3.0 mm long; stipe glabrous c. 1 mm long; style hooked, 
glabrous, 2.0-2.5 mm long; stigma capitate. Pod ovoid, turgid, yellow-brown to light 
red-brown, covered with white, loosely appressed hairs, occasionally becoming 
glabrescent with age but always retaining a tuft of hairs at apex, 4.5-6.0 mm long, 
3.75-5.0 mm wide; petals persistent until fruit dehiscence. Seeds ovoid, smooth, olive- 
browm, 2.0-2.5 mm long; aril cream.(Fig. 1). 
Phenology: flowers in mid-September to early October; fruits, with seed, from late 
October to early February, pods persistent to March. 
Distribution: known only from granite outcrops within the Gibraltar Range, and the 
Serpentine Nature Reserve, south of Ebor (L. Copeland, pers. comm.). 
