Low heath-like shrub to 70 cm tall; stems terete, suckering; branches more or less pubescent. Leaves 6–15 mm long, 0.7–1.2 mm wide, crowded towards ends of branches forming dense fascicles, pubescent, scabrous, tips recurved, mucronate; petiole 1–2 mm long. Flowers 5–8 mm long, solitary or paired, terminating branchlets; pedicels 0.5–1 mm long; bracteoles ovate, obtuse, 1–2 mm long, coriaceous, pubescent; calyx 3–4 mm long, white-villous, lower teeth as long as tube; petals yellow, orange or reddish; standard broad ovate. Pod 3–6 mm long, brown-pubescent; seeds 1 or 2, obliquely reniform, c. 3 mm long, shiny. Flowers mostly summer–autumn.
LoM, MuM, Wim, GleP, VVP, GGr, DunT. Also SA. Confined to western and north-western Victoria where locally common on deep sand in sand-heath and heathy woodland.
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.
