Podolobium procumbens
(F.Muell.) Crisp & P.H.Weston Trailing Shaggy-peaProcumbent or ascending rhizomatous shrub to 0.3 m tall; stems glabrescent. Leaves irregularly opposite or in whorls, ovate, 1–2.5 cm long, 6–18 mm wide, upper surface glabrescent, reticulate, shiny, lower surface sparsely hairy, margins undulate, apex acute, pungent-pointed; petiole to c. 3 mm long; stipules bristly, 2–5 mm long. Inflorescence a few-flowered, terminal or axillary raceme, often exserted beyond leaves; pedicels 4–10 mm long, silky; bracts narrow-lanceolate, bristly, 1–5 mm long; bracteoles narrow-lanceolate, bristly, about equal to calyx. Calyx 6–9 mm long, appressed-pubescent, teeth about equal to tube; corolla 10–14 mm long, orange with red markings; standard suborbicular, emarginate, orange with a reddish centre; wings orange; keel reddish; ovary stipitate, ovules 8. Pod obloid, 10–15 mm long, straight or curved, with several warty ridges, villous; seeds 2–8, c. 2 mm long. Flowers Nov.–Jan.
VVP, VRiv, Gold, CVU, NIS, EGL, EGU, HSF, HNF, MonT, HFE, VAlp. Also NSW. Scattered mainly across drier inland parts of Victoria in sclerophyll forests and woodlands.
Jeanes, J.A. (1996). Fabaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 663–829. Inkata Press, Melbourne.