Lessertia frutescens

Hoary, soft-wooded shrub to c. 1 m high; stems ribbed. Leaves 6–9 cm long; leaflets 7–25, elliptic to oblong or narrowly obovate, 3–15 mm long, 2–6 mm wide, apices truncate or emarginate, upper surface grey-green, glabrous, lower surface pubescent; stipules to c. 2 mm long. Racemes 2–8-flowered; pedicle 5–6 mm long; bracts triangular, 1–2 mm long; bracteole c. 1 mm long; flowers 25–30 mm long; calyx 8–9 mm long, pubescent; petals scarlet or red; standard oblong, c. 20 mm long, c. 14 mm wide, recurved, shortly clawed; wings elliptic, 7–9 mm long; keel longer than standard. Pod ovoid-oblong, 3–5 cm long, 1–2 cm wide, inflated, chartaceous, hyaline; seeds to 15, cordate to reniform, 2.5–3 mm long, green. Flowers Aug.–Jan.