Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Podolobium procumbens

Common name

Trailing shaggy pea

Family

Fabaceae 

Where found

Forest, woodland and roadsides. Kosciuszko National Park, tablelands, and the western edge of the ranges, south from east of Bungendore.

Notes

Shrub, prostrate or to 0.30 m tall, rhizomatous. Stems hairy, becoming hairless. Leaves with sharp tips. Leaves irregularly opposite each other or in irregular whorls of 3, 1-2.5 cm long, 6-18 mm wide, leathery, upper surface reticulate and shining with a few hairs on the veins, lower surface more or less hairy, margins often wavy, stipules bristly, 2–5 mm long. Flowers 10-14 mm long, pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, yellow-orange to red with red markings and often a red keel. Flowers in clusters. Flowers Spring to Summer.

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