Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Podolobium scandens

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, garden in Coffs Harbour

Flowers and leaves. Photographer Don Wood, Buckenbowra State Forest west of Moruya

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Common name

Netted shaggy pea

Family

Fabaceae 

Where found

Forest. Coast, ranges, and the eastern edge of the tablelands, north of Bega.

Notes

Prostrate to sprawling shrub, branches to 0.6m long. Young stems hairy. Leaves usually opposite each other, 1-7 cm long, 5-25 mm wide, tips pointed, blunt or notched, margins more or less finely scalloped, upper surface reticulate and shining, lower surface with a few scattered hairs, stipules bristly, 2–3 mm long. Flowers about 10 mm long, pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, yellow to orange often with reddish brown markings. Flowers in clusters. Flowers Spring.

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