Oxylobium ellipticum

Erect or procumbent shrub to c. 2 m tall; stems pubescent. Leaves mostly in irregular whorls of 3 or 4, elliptic or ovate to lanceolate, rarely cordate, 0.5–3 cm long, 3–10 mm wide, lower surface silky, upper surface glabrescent, reticulate, tuberculate, margins recurved, apex pungent-pointed; petiole to c. 4 mm long; stipules acuminate, c. 1.5 mm long, or absent. Inflorescence a dense terminal or upper axillary corymb; pedicels to c. 5 mm long, silky; bracts ovate, acuminate, to c. 5 mm long, keeled. Calyx 5–7 mm long, silky, teeth about equal to tube; corolla 8–10 mm long, yellow or orange-yellow with red markings; standard suborbicular, emarginate, yellow with a reddish centre; wings yellow; keel red; ovary sessile, ovules 8–10. Pod ovoid, c. 8 mm long, acuminate, pubescent or villous; seeds usually 2–6, c. 2.5 mm long. Flowers mostly Oct.–Jan.