Phyllota remota

Low heath-like shrub to 50 cm tall; stems terete, non-suckering; branches tomentose at least on upper parts, rugose. Leaves linear, 5–10 mm long, 0.8–1.2 mm wide, distant on stems, scabrous-tuberculate, apex subobtuse, minutely mucronate; petiole 1–2 mm long. Flowers 6–9 mm long, solitary or paired, terminating branchlets; pedicels less than 0.5 mm long; bracteoles ovate, acute, c. 4 mm long, almost enveloping the calyx, keeled, mucronate, coriaceous, pubescent; calyx 3–4 mm long, glabrous to white-villous, lower teeth as long as tube; petals yellow or reddish; standard rhombic. Pod 3–5 mm long, white-pubescent; seed usually 1, ovate, c. 2.5 mm long Flowers mostly summer–autumn.