Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Viminaria juncea

Common name

Golden spray, Native broom

Family

Fabaceae

Where found

Woodland, moist heath, moist sites, and swamps. Coast and ranges. Eastern edge of the tablelands west of Sydney.

Notes

Shrub, usually to 5 m tall. Stems cylindrical, wiry, striate, hairless, upright or weeping. Juvenile leaves compound, with 1-3 leaflets, each mostly 1-6 cm long, 3–15 mm wide. Mature leaves reduced to slender leaf stalks 3-25 cm long. Flowers yellow to orange, often with red blotches, keel usually reddish. Flowers about 8-10 mm long, pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, in clusters more than 20 cm long. Flowers spring-summer.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Viminaria~juncea (accessed 11 February, 2021)