Citation: J.H. Willis, Victorian Nat. 73:191 (1957).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Slender phyllota.

Description:
Tap-rooted shrubs to 0.5 m high, branches terete, tomentose at least on the upper part, rugose with decurrent leaf bases; leaves distant on the stem, linear, 5-10 x 0.8-1.2 mm, scabrous-tuberculate, subobtuse, with a fine mucro, tips not recurved, on 1-2 mm long more or less pubescent pedicels; stipules if present then small, inconspicuous.

Flowers 6-9 mm long, solitary, axillary, conspicuous or few in slightly concealed proliferous terminal leafy clusters, often paired, sessile or subsessile on short pedicels less than 0.5 mm long; bracteoles attached to the petiole under the calyx, ovate, acute, c. 4 mm long, keeled, with a mucronate apex, large and papery, almost enveloping the calyx, pubescent sometimes only on the keel; calyx 3-4 mm long, glabrous to villous outside, glabrous inside; upper 2 lobes longer and wider, united higher up, truncate, falcate; the lower lanceolate, equalling the tube; petals reddish; standard rhomboid, slightly hooded, about twice as long as the calyx; wings oblong, slightly exceeding the obtuse keel; stamens free, some adnate basally to the claws of the petals, both deciduous after flowering; ovary sessile, globose; style pubescent except at the tip.

Pod sessile, hardly exceeding the calyx, ovate, white-pubescent; seed usually 1, ovate, 2-2.5 mm long, brown.

	Phyllota remota twig, leaf, flower calyx with ovary, legume and seed.
Image source: fig 361b in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  S.Aust.: EP, MU, SL, SE.   Vic. (south-western section). Conservation status: native Flowering time: all the year round, mostly probably Oct. — July.

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

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available