Dillwynia Sm.

Eggs and Bacon Peas or Parrot Peas

Eggs and Bacon Peas or Parrot Peas

40 species endemic Aust.; all states and territories except NTErect spreading or prostrate shrubs. Leaves simple, alternate, narrow-linear, with incurved margins or terete and channelled above, sometimes twisted; stipules usually minute. Flowers in umbels, corymbs, racemes or axillary along the branches. Bracteoles distant from the calyx, deciduous. Calyx lobes shorter than or as long as the tube, 2 upper ones united higher up than the others. Corolla yellow or orange, often with a red or darker centre; standard reniform. Style hooked near the tip. Ovules 2. Legume ovate or rounded, turgid.