Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Podolobium aciculiferum

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, between Numeralla and Belowra, west of Bodalla

Flowering branch. Photographer Don Wood, Dampier State Forest west of Moruya

Shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, between Numeralla and Belowra, west of Bodalla

Common name

Needle shaggy pea

Family

Fabaceae

Where found

Forest, often on stony sites. Coast and ranges. Uncommon.

Notes

Shrub to 3 m tall or more or less prostrate. Stems hairy. Leaves with spiny tips. Spiny stipules 5–7 mm long. Leaves opposite each other or sometimes alternating up the stems, 1-2.5 cm long, 3-9 mm wide, upper surface reticulate and shining, lower surface hairy with minute hairs to hairless. Standard petal 5-9 mm long. Flowers pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, yellow to orange, often with red markings. Flowers single or in few-flowered clusters. Flowers Spring to Summer.

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