Fabaceae tribe Mirbelieae Dillwynia

      
Dillwynia Sm. (1805), Ann. Bot. (Koenig & Sims)
      2, 510.
30-40 spp.

      Named for Lewis Weston Dillwyn (1778-1855), , an English
      botanist based at Swansea, Wales and a close friend of J.E. Smith.
      Dillwyn mainly worked on freshwater algae, but he also described
      a number of species from the east coast of India in Hortus
      Malabaricus.

      Temperate Australia.

      Open woodlands and open forests, mallee woodlands, heaths, and
      swamps on oligotrophic soils; from coastal areas to alpine regions.

      Blakely, Aust. Nat. 10: 157-168; 181-187 (1939); P.H.Weston
      (1991), Fl. New South Wales 2, 499-504;
      B.J.Grieve (1998), How to Know Western Australian Wildflowers,
      ed. 2, 2, 428-429; P.Jobson & P.H.Weston, Telopea
      8, 1-6 (1998), Telopea 8, 363-369 (1999).

      Usually small shrubs belonging to the Pultenaea generic
      group within the multiple embyro-sac group; related to Stonesiella,
      Almaleea, Eutaxia and Pultenaea. Diagnosed
      within the group by subterete (often triquetrous) leaves with
      an adaxial groove or channel, a broad standard and dilated wing
      apices. Under revision by P. Jobson and P. Weston (NSW).

  © P. Jobson & M. Crisp
Dillwynia hispida, south-eastern SA

Dillwynia pungens, Cape Legrande, WA
Dillwynia floribunda, Jervis Bay, NSW
Dillwynia rupestris, Gibraltar Range, NSW
Dillwynia prostrata, southern NSW
 



Dillwynia parvifolia var. trichopoda, Hill Top, NSW