Erect shrub to 6 m tall; stems pubescent. Leaves irregularly opposite or in irregular whorls of 3, narrow-elliptic or linear to linear-oblong, 2–7 cm long, 5–10 mm wide, lower surface silky, upper surface glabrescent, reticulate, tuberculate, margins recurved, apex mucronate; petiole to c. 4 mm long; stipules absent. Inflorescence a few-flowered, short terminal or axillary raceme; pedicels to c. 5 mm long, silky; bracts lanceolate, to c. 1.5 mm long. Calyx 5–7 mm long, silky, teeth about equal to tube; corolla 8–10 mm long, yellow with red markings; standard suborbicular, emarginate, yellow with a reddish centre; wings and keel yellow; ovary sessile, ovules 8 or more. Pod ovoid, 5–10 mm long, often laterally compressed, acuminate, pubescent; seeds usually 2–6, c. 2.5 mm long. Flowers mostly Sep.–Jan..
VVP, VRiv, GipP, CVU, NIS, EGL, EGU, HSF, HNF, MonT, HFE, VAlp. Also Qld, NSW, Tas. Uncommon tall shrub or small tree from montane areas in the east of the State.
Specimens with abnormally short, elliptic leaves have been noted on the Baw Baw Plateau near Tyers, at Bennison Lookout near Licola and on Mt Useful.
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.
