Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Oxylobium ellipticum
Common name
Common shaggy-pea, Golden shaggy-pea
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, heath, alpine herbfields, and along streams. Widespread. Uncommon on the coast.
Notes
Shrub to 2 m tall or sprawling. Leaves with sharp points. Stems tough and wiry, hairy, becoming hairless. Leaves mostly in irregular whorls of 3 or 4, 0.5-3.5 cm long, 2-10 mm wide, occasionally cordate, upper surface with small tubercules, reticulate, hairless, lower surface with silky, appressed hairs. Flowers 8-12 mm long, pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, yellow to orange, sometimes with red markings, and usually with red keels. Flowers in dense clusters. Flowers Spring to Summer. Pods shaggy hairy.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Oxylobium~ellipticum (accessed 29 January, 2021)
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