Comesperma ericinum

Erect slender shrub 30–200 cm high; stems smooth and glabrous to minutely scabrous-pubescent. Leaves elliptic to oblong, 5–15 mm long, 1–4 mm wide, discolorous, glaucous beneath, margins recurved, midrib usually apparent, apex usually produced into a short, recurved point. Flowers pink to magenta, in terminal racemes; raceme axis 1.5–7 cm long; pedicels 3–6 mm long; sepals free, the outer 3 broad-ovate, 1–1.5 mm long, often purplish, wings obovate, 5.5–7.5 mm long, keel yellow-tipped, slightly shorter than wings, broadly hooded and 3-lobed at apex; upper petals c. oblong, subequal to keel, shortly united with it near base. Capsule spathulate, c. 7 mm long, truncate at apex; seeds ellipsoid, 2–3 mm long, dorsally glabrescent, ventrally with a pale, narrow longitudinal flange and silky hairs c. 5 mm long. Flowers Oct.–Dec.