Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Podolobium ilicifolium

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

Flowering branches. Photographer Don Wood, Mt Budawang, Budawang National Paark

Shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Boonoo Boonoo Falls south east of Stanthorpe, NSW

Common name

Native holly, Prickly shaggy pea, Prickly podolobium

Family

Fabaceae

Where found

Forest. Mainly coast, ranges, and the eastern tablelands. Occasionally elsewhere.

Notes

Shrub to 3 m tall. Stems hairy to hairless. Spiny stipules 1–3 mm long. Leaves lobed, with a sharp point at the tips of each lobe. Leaves opposite or almost opposite each other, 2-10 cm long, 10-30 mm wide, upper surface reticulate and shining. Flowers 8-10 mm long. pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, yellow to orange-yellow, often with red markings. Flowers in few- to many-flowered clusters. Flowers Spring to Summer.

Rare Vic.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Podolobium~ilicifolium  (accessed 22 January, 2021)