Citation: J. Black, Fl. S. Aust. 297 (1924).

Synonymy: -Sclerothamnus microphyllus R. Br. in W.T. Aiton, Hort. Kew. edn 2, 3:16 (1811). , Eutaxia empetrifolia

Common name: Eutaxia, mallee bush-pea.

Description:
Variable shrub, often low dense and intricate or erect, stems usually glabrous, the smaller axes often spinous; leaves in pairs, opposite, ducussate, attached by a c. 0.3 mm long wrinkled yellowish petiole, usually elliptic to linear or lanceolate-ovate to oblanceolate-obovate, 2-10 x 0.5-3 mm, more or less concave, usually glabrous or slightly ciliate.

Flowers axillary, single or paired, 6-10 mm long, on glabrous pedicels 1-2 mm long; bracts if present soon caducous; bracteoles attached below the calyx, elliptic to linear-lanceolate, 1-4 mm long, persistent; calyx 2.5-4 mm long, outer surface glabrous or with sparse spreading hairs, inner quite woolly-tomentose; teeth about as long as the tube, ciliate, the 2 upper ones partly united; standard rather broader than long, yellow often streaked purple or red; wings obovate, shorter, yellow; keel obtuse, equalling the wings, purple; ovary stipitate, mostly pubescent, with a filiform style.

Pod obovoid, 4-5 mm long, very turgid; seed reniform, c. 2 mm long, dull, brown-black, with the aril off-centre.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NU, GT, FR, EA, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL, KI, SE. Conservation status: native Flowering time: No flowering time is available

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

Key to Infraspecific taxa:

1. Leaves linear to linear-lanceolate, 2-5 x c. 0.6 mm, obtuse	var. microphylla 1a.
1. Leaves lanceolate to ovate or obovate, 3-7 x 1-3 mm, subacute	var. diffusa 2a.

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