Pultenaea fasciculata

Small, prostrate or decumbent shrub; stems terete with white, silky, appressed hairs, eventually almost glabrous. Leaves alternate, terete, 3–10 mm long; apex acute with long, fragile mucro; lower surface scabrous with a few, pale hairs on young growth; upper surface obscured; margin tightly inrolled; stipules lanceolate, slender, 1–2 mm long, with recurved tips. Flowers solitary, axillary, towards tips of branches; bracts absent, but flower subtended by a reduced leaf with enlarged stipules; calyx 4–5 mm long, silky-pubescent, lobes acute, lower lobes with long, slender tips; bracteoles attached at base of calyx tube, linear 1.5–3.5 mm long, silky-hairy; standard 7–9 mm wide; ovary and base of style hairy. Pod ovate, at least lower half enclosed by calyx. Flowers Dec.–Feb.