Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Phyllota squarrosa
Common name
Dense phyllota
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Dry forest and heath on sandstone. Mainly ranges and eastern edge of the tablelands north from Kanangra-Boyd National Park.
Notes
Shrub to 0.75 m high or sprawling, young growth hairy, becoming hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems or scattered, 0.6–1.4 cm long, 0.75–1.25 mm wide, tips pointed with a yellow, curved down mucro, margins rolled down. Flowers 8-12 mm long, pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, yellow-orange to red; wings yellow; keel orange to red. Flowers few in leafy spikes. Flowers summer.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Phyllota~squarrosa (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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