Decumbent to erect shrub, 0.4–1.5 m tall; stems glabrous, often spinescent, particularly the lateral growths. Leaves linear to narrow-oblong to spathulate, rarely obovate, 1–10 mm long, c. 0.5 mm wide, moderately crowded, usually glabrous, smooth or minutely tuberculate, apex obtuse to incurved and shortly acuminate; petiole to c. 1 mm long. Flowers solitary, terminal and in upper axils; pedicel 0.5–8 mm long. Calyx 4–5 mm long, virtually glabrous; standard 7–10 mm long, notched, yellow with radiating red veins; wings shorter, spathulate, yellow; keel shortest, obtuse, red. Pod ovoid globular, 5–7 mm long, 3–4 mm wide, sparsely villous; seeds usually 2. Flowers Aug.–Nov.
Wim, VVP, Gold, CVU, NIS, HSF. Also NSW. Scattered in dry open-forests of central Victoria and also known from a few sites in the Latrobe Valley.
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.
