Fabaceae FAMILY

Daviesia latifolia

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Daviesia latifolia is a slender, open, evergreen shrub usually growing 1 - 3 metres tall, occasionally reaching 5 metres[ 365 Title Flora of New South Wales Publication Author Website http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/floraonline.htm Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An on-line resource giving a brief botanical description of all the native plants of New South Wales, their habitat and range, together with diagrams and photographs of the plants. ]. Although it produces true leaves as a seedling, the mature plant does not have true leaves but has leaf-like flattened stems called phyllodes[ 286 Title Flora of Australia Publication Author Website http://www.anbg.gov.au/abrs/abif/flora/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description The full information from the Flora of Australia - on-line. An excellent resource. ]. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a medicine.

Habitat & Origin

Origintemperate

Native RangeAustralia - southern Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania.

HabitatOpen forests, especially in hilly and mountainous areas, forming dense scrub on silurian, basalt and red sand soils[ 152 Title Australian Medicinal Plants. Publication Author Lassak. E. V. and McCarthy. T. Publisher New Holland Publishers Year 2001 ISBN 1876334703 Description A very good and readable guide to the subject. ]. Widespread in dry sclerophyll communities, growing on a wide range of soils; at elevations up to 1,800 metres[ 365 Title Flora of New South Wales Publication Author Website http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/floraonline.htm Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An on-line resource giving a brief botanical description of all the native plants of New South Wales, their habitat and range, together with diagrams and photographs of the plants. , 1364 Title A monograph of Daviesia (Mirbelieae, Faboideae, Fabaceae) Publication Phytotaxa 300 (1): 001-308 Author Crisp M.D.; Cayzer L.; Chandler G.T.; Cook L.G. Website https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.300.1.1 Publisher Year 2017 ISBN 1179-3155 Description ].