Aenictophyton reconditum A.T.Lee subsp. reconditum

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, 10-18 mm long, 0.8-1.2 mm wide, hairy, with simple hairs, flat with flat margins or flat with incurved margins (conduplicate); margins entire; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Pedicel present, 1.5-2 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present and persistent, 1.2 mm long, hairy, not striate. Calyx 4.5-6 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 8-10 mm long, uniformly coloured, yellow; claws present; standard 6-8 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 6-8.5(-8.6) mm long, not auriculate, keel 6-8 mm long, not beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens; anthers 0.4-0.5 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments united in an open sheath, 4-7 mm long. Ovary stipitate, hairy or glandular; style 6-9 mm long, hairy or glandular towards the base, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), 20-22 mm long, 5 mm wide, stipitate, not constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, glabrous, not beaked. Flowers in May, July, August and September. Occurs in the Eremaean Botanical Province, in the Great Sandy Desert, Pilbara and Little Sandy Desert IBRA regions.