Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Eutaxia microphylla

Flowering stesm. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Stokes Inlet, WA

Shrub. Photographer Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, western NSW

Common name

Common Eutaxia

Family

Fabaceae

Where found

Woodland and mallee. Western Slopes.

Notes

Shrub to 2 m tall.  Stems usually hairless, smaller stems often spine-tipped.  'Leaves' opposite each other, crowded, 0.15–0.5 cm or more long, to 1 mm wide, flat to slightly concave in cross section, hairless, margins with a few hairs, tips blunt.  Flowers about 6 mm long, yellow; and purple, red, or brown, pea-shaped, with five petals, two almost joined together to form the keel.  Flowers single or in pairs. Flowers Aug.–Nov.

Eutaxia microphylla var. microphylla in VICFLORA.

PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eutaxia~microphylla  (accessed 22 January, 2021)