Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Phyllota squarrosa

Common name

Dense phyllota

Family

Fabaceae

Where found

Dry forest and heath on sandstone. Mainly ranges and eastern edge of the tablelands north from Kanangra-Boyd National Park.

Notes

Shrub to 0.75 m high or sprawling, young growth hairy, becoming hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems or scattered, 0.6–1.4 cm long, 0.75–1.25 mm wide, tips pointed with a yellow, curved down mucro, margins rolled down. Flowers 8-12 mm long, pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, yellow-orange to red; wings yellow; keel orange to red. Flowers few in leafy spikes. Flowers summer.

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