Shrub or slender tree to 2 m high; young branchlets densely clothed with appressed or spreading hairs. Leaflets obovate to obovate-cuneate or elliptic, the terminal one usually obovate, 10–40 mm long, 6–20 mm wide, with scattered hairs on both surfaces; petiole 5–30 mm long. Racemes 2–6 cm long; flowers 9–14 mm long; pedicels 3–8 mm long; calyx 4–6.5 mm long, pubescent, the 3 lower teeth usually as long as or longer than tube in mature flowers; petals bright yellow with red or brown markings. Pods narrow-elliptic to oblong, 1–2 cm long, narrowed basally into a slender stipe; foot of aril 1.2–2 mm long. Flowers Sep.–Nov.
Wim, GleP, VVP, GipP, OtP, GGr, DunT, WPro, HSF, HNF, OtR, VAlp. Also NSW, Tas. . Occurs sporadically in dry and wet sclerophyll forest in the south-west, Grampians, Otways, and Central Highlands.
