Citation: Sieber ex DC., Prod. 2:111 (1825) var. glabrescens J. Black, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 47:370 (1923).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Yellow bush-pea.

Description:
Shrub with terete villous stems; leaves pedicellate, ovate-lanceolate, 10-20 x 3-8 mm, pungent-pointed, the midrib and often 2 or more lateral veins prominent, often covered with minute tubercules more so on the margins, upper surface flat or concave by the incurved or involute villous margins, veins often villous, lower surface rarely pubescent; stipules narrow-lanceolate, 3-6 mm long, connate or free, midrib often pubescent, ending in an acuminate point; margins hyaline, ciliate.

Flower subsessile, 10-12 mm long, axillary, single; bracts absent; bracteoles attached at the base of the calyx tube, lanceolate, c. 3 mm long, longer than the tube, brown, leathery, the midrib and base villous; margins scarious, ciliate or pubescent; calyx 4-6 mm long, leathery-papery, brown, pubescent basally and on the ciliate lobes; upper 2 broader, ovate-acute, united higher up, not falcate; lower narrower, acuminate, shorter or longer than the tube; standard suborbicular, longer than broad, yellow; wings shorter, on slender and long claws, yellow, oblong, auriculate above the claw; keel equalling the wings, falcate-oblong in outline, crimson; ovary and lower style pubescent.

Pod ovate, acute, c. 5 mm long, turgid, brown, pubescent, 2-seeded; seed cordiform to reniform, c. 2.5 mm long, dark-brown, smooth.

Conservation status: native Flowering time: Oct. — Nov.

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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