Eutaxia exilis C.F.Wilkins & G.R.Hend.

Scientific Description

Twining or climbing plants, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, not spiny, glabrous; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, opposite, not continuous with stem, 6.5-9 mm long, 0.5-0.8 mm wide, glabrous, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules apparently absent even from the youngest leaves or present and persistent to older leaves. Pedicel present, 0.7-1 mm long, glabrous. Bracteoles present and persistent. Calyx 3.2-5 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribbed; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 6-8 mm long, uniformly coloured, yellow; claws present; standard 6-6.5 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 5-6 mm long, not auriculate, keel 6-6.5 mm long, not beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.2-0.3 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 2.5-3.7 mm long. Ovary stipitate, hairy or glandular; style 3.5-4 mm long, hairy or glandular towards the base, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), stipitate, not constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, not beaked. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Jarrah Forest IBRA regions.