Prostrate, often mat-forming shrubs, rooting at nodes; stems glabrous to densely pubescent. Leaves alternate, unifoliolate; petiole 8–25 mm long; lamina broadly ovate, broadly elliptic or orbicular, 1–4 cm long, 0.8–3.5 cm wide, base broadly rounded or truncate, sometimes slightly cordate, apex usually obtuse or rounded, apiculate. Flowers 1–2 per axil; pedicles distinct, exserted from basal bracts and scales; bracteoles flat or convex, 2–6 mm long, not overlapping the calyx, brown or orange-brown, striate, glabrous or sparsely hairy; calyx with sparse appressed hairs, upper lobes 5–7.5 mm long (including tube), lower lobes 2.5–3.5 mm long; ovary pubescent. Pod with a thin wing 0.8–1 mm wide beyond the upper sutural nerve, pubescent or at least the sutures hairy. Flowers Sep.–Dec.

Gold, CVU. Grows in open forest on ranges in central and central-western Victoria from Mt Buangor to Blackwood.

Previously included in a broadly defined Platylobium formosum (see note under P. montanum). Often confused with P. alternifolium due to its alternate leaves. However, it is easily distinguished from P. alternifolium as the calyces and young pods are pubescent throughout and peduncles are exserted from the basal bracts and scales.

Pennisetum macrourum