Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Sphaerolobium minus

Flowers. Photographer Richard Hartland, Anglesea, Vic

Flowering stems. Photographer Don Wood, Ben Boyd National Park south of Eden

Common name

Small leafless globe-pea, Globe-pea

Family

Fabaceae 

Where found

Forest, woodland, and wet heath. Coast, ranges, tablelands, and the ACT.

Notes

Rush-like shrub to 0.5 m tall. Stems cylindrical, faintly ribbed, hairless. Leafless, sometimes with a few scattered leaves to about 0.5 cm long. Flowers about 5 mm long, pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, yellow with faint red markings, in long clusters of 2-3 flowers grouped together. Calyx and the bracteoles below the calyx uniformly red-grey, sometimes lead-grey. Flowers Spring-Summer.

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=Sphaerolobium~minus  (accessed 18 January, 2021)