Podolobium aestivum
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| Podolobium aestivum | |
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| In the Gibraltar Range National Park | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Faboideae |
| Genus: | Podolobium |
| Species: | P. aestivum |
| Binomial name | |
| Podolobium aestivum | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
Podolobium aestivum, is a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to New South Wales, Australia. It is an upright shrub with green spiky leaves and orange pea-like flowers.
Podolobium aestivum is an upright shrub 1–2.5 m (3 ft 3 in – 8 ft 2 in) high, lower leaf surface and young stems covered with flattened or spreading hairs. The leaves are arranged opposite, usually 2.5–8 cm (0.98–3.15 in) long, 10–20 mm (0.39–0.79 in) wide, upper surface shiny and veined, margins more or less evenly lobed and sharply pointed. The stipules are stiff, sharp, curved, and up to 3 mm (0.12 in) long. The flowers are borne in racemes in leaf axils, occasionally longer than the leaves, bracts are oval-shaped and small. The orange corolla is about 10 mm (0.39 in) long and the calyx about 6 mm (0.24 in) long. Flowering occurs in spring and summer, and the fruit is an oblong shaped pod, more or less straight, 10–14 mm (0.39–0.55 in) long, about 3 mm (0.12 in) in diameter with short, soft hairs.[2]