Erect shrub to 3 m high; stems numerous, glaucous-green, glabrous, softly pithed. Leaves soon deciduous; leaflets oblong-linear, 1–3 cm long, 2–10 mm wide, subsessile, glabrous above, paler and appressed-sericeous below, entire; apex rounded. Flowers 5–30 in lax terminal racemes, sweetly scented; pedicles c. 3 mm long; calyx 5–7.5 mm long, brownish; corolla 20–28 mm long, bright yellow. Pod linear-oblong, 4–10 cm long, 6–7 mm diam., sericeous, becoming glabrous and blackish; seeds c. 12–20, squarish, often obliquely so, 3–3.5 mm long, yellowish-brown, shiny; aril pale brown. Flowers Nov.–Dec.
MuM, VVP, GipP, OtP, Gold, CVU, HSF. Also SA, Qld, NSW, Tas. Native to the Mediterranean region, cultivated for its showy flowers. Plants occasionally escaping from old gardens or plantings.
