Procumbent or ascending shrub to 1.3 m tall; young stems pubescent. Leaves opposite or in irregular whorls of 3, broad-oblong to obovate, 1–5 cm long, 3–14 mm wide, upper surface glabrescent, reticulate, lower surface paler, sparsely hairy to glabrous, margins recurved, apex mucronate; petiole to c. 3 mm long; stipules subulate, 1.5–3 mm long. Inflorescence a few-flowered, terminal or axillary raceme; pedicels 1–3 mm long, silky; bracts subulate-lanceolate, 1–2 mm long; bracteoles linear, 2–4 mm long. Calyx 5–6 mm long, silky, teeth about equal to tube; corolla 10–12 mm long, orange-yellow sometimes with red markings; standard suborbicular, emarginate, orange-yellow with a reddish centre; keel sometimes red; ovary stipitate, ovules c. 4–6. Pod ovoid to obloid, 8–15 mm long, with several warty ridges, acuminate, villous; seeds usually 2–6, c. 2.5 mm long. Flowers Nov.–Feb.
CVU, EGU, HSF, HNF, MonT, HFE, VAlp. Also NSW, ACT. Apart from isolated low-altitude occurrences near Mt Cole in western Victoria and the Macedon Ranges, apparently confined to montane and subalpine parts of the Eastern Highlands where often common.
