Sphaerolobium minus

Erect rush-like shrub, to c. 0.5 m tall; stems terete, faintly ribbed, glabrous; branchlets few, long, ascending, usually not forked at tips. Leaves, when present, linear-lanceolate, to c. 5 mm long, scattered; stipules absent. Flowers usually 2 or 3, clustered together forming long terminal racemes; peduncle to c. 0.5 mm long, produced into a subulate tip between flowers; pedicel 1–3 mm long; bracts obovate, c. 1 mm long; bracteoles obovate, 1.5–3 mm long, lead-grey, inserted below calyx. Calyx 3–4 mm long, lead-grey, more or less glabrous, teeth imbricate, unequal, longer than tube, upper lip cuneate, lower lobes subulate; petals yellow with reddish markings; standard broadly obovate, emarginate, 5–6 mm long, yellow, suffused red; wings equal to keel; keel obtuse, about the same length as wings; style wing much longer than broad, more than one-quarter the length of style. Pod globose, 3–5 mm diam., turgid, long-stipitate; seeds 1–2, c. 2 mm long, sometimes mottled. Flowers Sep.–Dec.