Oxylobium ellipticum
(Labill.) R.Br. Common Shaggy PeaErect or procumbent shrub to c. 2 m tall; stems pubescent. Leaves mostly in irregular whorls of 3 or 4, elliptic or ovate to lanceolate, rarely cordate, 0.5–3 cm long, 3–10 mm wide, lower surface silky, upper surface glabrescent, reticulate, tuberculate, margins recurved, apex pungent-pointed; petiole to c. 4 mm long; stipules acuminate, c. 1.5 mm long, or absent. Inflorescence a dense terminal or upper axillary corymb; pedicels to c. 5 mm long, silky; bracts ovate, acuminate, to c. 5 mm long, keeled. Calyx 5–7 mm long, silky, teeth about equal to tube; corolla 8–10 mm long, yellow or orange-yellow with red markings; standard suborbicular, emarginate, yellow with a reddish centre; wings yellow; keel red; ovary sessile, ovules 8–10. Pod ovoid, c. 8 mm long, acuminate, pubescent or villous; seeds usually 2–6, c. 2.5 mm long. Flowers mostly Oct.–Jan.
CVU, EGU, HSF, HNF, MonT, VAlp. Also Qld, NSW, Tas. In montane to alpine areas in the east of the State.
Jeanes, J.A. (1996). Fabaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 663–829. Inkata Press, Melbourne.