Mirbelia oxylobioides

Decumbent or erect shrub to 1.5 m tall; stems terete, appressed-pubescent. Leaves opposite, whorled or scattered, narrow-ovate to elliptic, sometimes oblong, 2–10 mm long, 1–4 mm wide, lower surface appressed-pubescent, upper surface glabrescent, tuberculate, margins recurved, apex with a minute recurved point; petiole to c. 0.5 mm long. Inflorescence a few-flowered terminal raceme; pedicels to c. 4 mm long, silky. Calyx 5–6 mm long, silky, teeth about equal to tube; corolla 8–10 mm long, orange-yellow with red markings; standard suborbicular, orange-yellow with a reddish centre; keel about equal to wings, rusty or purplish-red; ovary shortly stipitate, pubescent, ovules 10 or more. Pod ovoid to oblong, 8–10 mm long, apex acute, pubescent, brown; seeds usually 2–4, c. 2 mm long. Flowers mostly Oct.–Jan.