Podalyria

Erect perennial shrubs, silky-pubescent or villous. Leaves alternate, simple, obovate to oblong (in Victoria), linear, lanceolate, elliptic or suborbicular, hairy (in Victoria), rarely glabrous; stipules subulate, deciduous. Flowers 1 (in Victoria) or 2(–4), axillary; bracts solitary, early-caducous. Calyx broadly campanulate, 5-toothed, silky, teeth unequal, upper 2 connate higher up than the lower 3, as long as or longer than tube. Petals pink (in Victoria), purple or white, clawed; standard suborbicular (in Victoria) or oblong-obovate, often bilobed; wings elliptic, oblong, obovate or obovate-oblong; keel obtuse. Stamens free or slightly connate at base. Ovary sessile, pubescent; style hairy at base; stigma small, capitate; ovules 5–18 (5–7 in Victoria). Pod obloid (in Victoria) or ovoid, turgid, shaggy, leathery; seeds arillate.