Variable heath-like shrub to 1.5 m tall; stems dense and intricate or erect, usually glabrous, non-spinescent. Leaves lanceolate to ovate or obovate, mostly 3–7 mm long, 1–3 mm wide, green above, often brownish below, somewhat distant, concave and keeled, usually glabrous, subsessile, apex subacute. Flowers c. 6 mm long, solitary or rarely paired; pedicels 1–2 mm long, glabrous; bracteoles 1–4 mm long, persistent. Calyx 2.5–4 mm long, glabrous or sparsely hairy, teeth equal to or longer than tube; standard broader than long, yellow; wings yellow; keel purple. Pod 4–5 mm long; seeds usually 2, c. 2.5 mm long, brown-black. Flowers Aug.–Nov.
LoM, MuM, Wim, VVP, VRiv, MuF, GipP, Gold, CVU, GGr. Also SA, NSW. Widespread in drier parts of western and northern Victoria, often in mallee communities.
Source:
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.
