Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Oxylobium arborescens

Flowers and leaves. Photographer Don Wood, Coolangubra State Forest near Bombala 

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

Shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Common name

Tall shaggy pea

Family

Fabaceae

Where found

Forest. Kosciuszko National Park. Tablelands and ranges south of Bombala. Ranges and tablelands between Marulan and Colo Vale. Occasional elsewhere.

Notes

Shrub to 6m tall. Stems hairy. Leaves with a mucro, irregularly opposite each other or in irregular whorls of 3, 2-7 cm long, 5-10 mm wide, tips mucronate, margins curved down, upper surface with small tubercules, veins reticulate, hairless, lower surface with silky appressed hairs. Flowers 8-10 mm long, pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, yellow with red markings. Flowers in short clusters. Flowers mostly Sep.–Jan..

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Oxylobium~arborescens  (accessed 29 January, 2021)