Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Mirbelia platylobioides

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Morton National Park

Flowers and leaves. Photographer Don Wood, north of Braidwood

Shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, near Mongarlowe east of Braidwood

Common name

Tableland mirbelia

Family

Fabaceae

Where found

Woodland, heath, and roadsides. Ranges and eastern part of the tablelands. Rare elsewhere.

Notes

Sprawling shrub, stems to 0.4m long. Leaf tips sharp. Stems hairy. Leaves alternating along the stems or opposite each other, 1.5-4 cm long, 5-15 mm wide, upper surface strongly reticulate and shining, lower surface silky. Flowers 14-18 mm long, pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, yellow to orange with a red to purple centre. Flowers in few-flowered clusters or rarely single. Flowers Spring.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Mirbelia~platylobioides  (accessed 24 January, 2021)