Notes

Dense compact intricately branched spreading shrub 60 cm high x 3 m wide. Many stems from a woody rootstock (lacking a single main aerial stem). Stems bluish grey when young but extremities tinged with purple. Slender vertical flowering stems often arising from near the base of the plant. Calyx green, the upper surface and lobes suffused with red, the under surface of the tube green and the 3 lower lobes suffused with red. Standard internally yellow with a pinkish-red flare around a yellow throat, externally yellow basally surrounded by a pinkish red horseshoe-shaped zone that gives way to red then pinkish-brown. Wings pinkish red basally, orange-yellow or brown apically. Keel pinkish-red basally apart from a greenish white claw, darker red apically. Flowering almost finished Deep yellow sand. In open mallee Eucalyptus community. Rich shrub understorey of Grevillea, Acacia spp., Alyxia, Daviesia, Westringia, Melaleuca, Eremophila, Eriostemon and Thelymitra and Triodia. Growing beneath mallee eucalypts. common but localised. Priority 3 species.