Citation: Maconochie, J. Adelaide Bot. Gard. 2:323, fig. 1 (1980).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Erect many-stemmed subshrub to 0.5 m high but usually to 20 cm; branches terete, weakly striate, densely sericeous-tomentose; leaves obovate to suborbicular, on short petioles c. 1 mm long; lamina 5-13 x 4-9 mm, apex obtuse to retuse, mainly attenuate towards the base, margin slightly undulate, with a densely appressed sericeous indumentum on both surfaces; stipules filiform, acute, 1.5-2 mm long, pubescent.

Flowers 6-9 mm long, on slender pubescent pedicels 4-7 mm long; racemes terminal, widely spaced, 2 or 3-flowered rarely more, on peduncles 15-30 mm long; bract ovate-lanceolate, c. 2 mm long, acute, glabrous above, pubescent underneath; bracteoles similar, close to the calyx, c. 1.5 mm long; calyx 5-6 mm long, densely appressed-pubescent outside, glabrous but 3-striate inside; lobes lanceolate, longer than the tube; petals dark-red, striate; standard orbicular, notched, c. 9 x 10 mm; wings obovate, c. 8 x 3 mm; keel obovate, incurved, equalling the wings; ovary sessile, densely pubescent, with a filiform glabrous style, 10-12-ovulate.

Pod shortly stipitate, oblong, 10-16 x c. 6 mm, densely to subwoolly-pubescent; seed reniform, c. 3 x c. 2 mm, strongly reticulate, brown.

	Isotropis centralis
Image source: fig 360b in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NW.   W.Aust.; N.T.; N.S.W. Conservation status: native Flowering time: July — Sept.

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

Biology: No text

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