Jacksonia condensata Crisp & J.R.Wheeler

Scientific Description

Erect or prostrate,spreading or scrambling, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, spiny at least in part or not spiny, glabrous; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades absent or apparently so (reduced to scales), alternate, not continuous with stem, hairy, with simple hairs, flat with flat margins; margins dentate; tubercles absent, 1-2.5; pustules or glands absent. Stipules apparently absent even from the youngest leaves. Pedicel present or absent (flowers sessile), 0.5-2 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present and persistent, 2-2.4 mm long, hairy, not striate. Calyx 6-7.5 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 6.5-8.2 mm long, uniformly coloured, yellow; claws present; standard 6.5-7.5 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 5.2-6 mm long, not auriculate, keel 4.5-5.5 mm long, not beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.4-0.5 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 2.7-4.3 mm long. Ovary stipitate or sessile or subsessile; style 4.2-5.2 mm long, hairy or glandular towards the base, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), stipitate or sessile or subsessile, not constricted between the seeds, round in cross-section, hairy, with simple hairs, not beaked. Flowers in September, October and November. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Geraldton Sandplains, Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest, Mallee and Esperance IBRA regions.