Polygala virgata

Slender, erect, broom-like shrub to c. 2 m high, leafless or nearly so; stems with protuberant petiole scars, virtually glabrous. Leaves, when present, obovate to linear, 8–30 mm long, 1–2.5 mm wide. Flowers mauve, in terminal racemes 4–15 cm long; bracts and bracteoles narrow-ovate, 1.5–2.5 mm long, soon deciduous; pedicels 3–5.5 mm long; sepals free, the upper and lower ones ovate, 3.5–5 mm long, wings broad-obovate, 10–12 mm long, 7–10 mm wide, c. 6-nerved with oblique connecting veinlets, mauve on both surfaces; corolla subequal to sepals, keel pink, with a darker apical blotch, appendages c. 4 mm long, lateral petals c. half as long as keel. Capsule obcordate, c. 9 mm long; seed hirsute, c. 3.5 mm long, with aril c. 1 mm long. Flowers most of year.