Aotus procumbens Meisn.

Scientific Description

Erect, 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, 4-20 mm long, 0.8-1 mm wide, hairy, with simple hairs, flat with flat margins or strongly recurved, appearing terete but with one or two grooves below; margins entire; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules apparently absent even from the youngest leaves. Pedicel present, 1.4-1.8 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles absent. Calyx 5.4-6 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 11-13 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow or orange, with some yellow or orange spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 8.5-10.5 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 6-7 mm long, not auriculate, keel 7.8-8 mm long, not beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.5-0.6 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 5-7 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, hairy or glandular; style 7.5 mm long, glabrous, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), stipitate, not constricted between the seeds, not beaked. Flowers in August and September. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Geraldton Sandplains, Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain IBRA regions.