Podolobium ilicifolium

Erect shrub to 3 m tall; stems glabrous or pubescent. Leaves opposite, narrow-ovate to ovate, 2–10 cm long, 10–30 mm wide, upper surface glabrous, reticulate, shiny, lower surface often pubescent, margins irregularly lobed with each lobe pungent-pointed; petiole to c. 3 mm long; stipules spinose, 1–3 mm long, curved. Inflorescence a few-many-flowered, terminal or axillary raceme; pedicels 1–3 mm long, silky; bracts lanceolate to ovate, 1–2.5 mm long, caducous; bracteoles absent. Calyx 3–5 mm long, pubescent, teeth shorter than tube; corolla 8–10 mm long, yellow or orange-yellow with reddish markings; standard suborbicular, emarginate, yellow or orange-yellow with a reddish centre; wings yellowish; keel red; ovary stipitate, ovules c. 4. Pod obloid, to c. 15 mm long, straight or curved, with numerous low warty ridges, glabrous or pubescent; seeds 1–4, c. 2.5 mm long. Flowers Sep.–Dec.