Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Phyllota humifusa

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

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

Shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Peter Ollerenshaw, Penrose State Forest near Bundanoon

Common name

Dwarf phyllota

Family

Fabaceae

Where found

Dry forest, sometimes near swamps. Ranges north from Wingello.

Notes

Prostrate shrub, hairy, at least on young growth. Leaves alternating along the stems, mostly 0.3-1 cm long, 0.75 mm wide, tips blunt to pointed with a small straight or slightly curved mucro, margins rolled down. Flowers 7-8 mm long, pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, standard petal yellow to orange or reddish brown, wings yellow to orange, keel reddish brown. Flowers single or a few together, in leafy clusters. Flowers Spring to Summer.

Vulnerable Australia. Vulnerable NSW. Provisions of the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species.

NSW Threatened Species profile:  http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=10626 (accessed 7 January, 2021)

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Phyllota~humifusa (accessed 7 January, 2021)