Aotus lanea Chappill & C.F.Wilkins

Scientific Description

Prostrate,spreading or scrambling, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, not spiny, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, alternate, not continuous with stem, 4.5-8 mm long, 2-3 mm wide, hairy, with simple hairs, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules apparently absent even from the youngest leaves. Pedicel present, 2.6-3 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles absent. Calyx 5.5-6 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 8.5-10.2 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow, red or brown, with some yellow, red or brown spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 8.4-8.5 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 6.5-7 mm long, not auriculate, keel 6.7-8 mm long, not beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.6-0.8 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 7.4 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, hairy or glandular; style 7.5-9 mm long, glabrous, not bearded, flattened at apex. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), stipitate, not constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, not beaked. Flowers in April and October. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Mallee IBRA regions. Conservation Code Priority One (P1).