Leptosema anomalum (Ewart & Morrison) Crisp

Scientific Description

Prostrate,spreading or scrambling, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, not spiny, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades absent or apparently so (reduced to scales), alternate, hairy, with simple hairs, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent, 3-5; pustules or glands absent. Stipules apparently absent even from the youngest leaves. Pedicel present, 1.5-2 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present and persistent, 4-7 mm long, hairy, not striate. Calyx 7-9 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla uniformly coloured, yellow; claws absent; standard 5 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 7 mm long, not auriculate, keel 6-7 mm long, not beaked, not auriculate. Stamens ten; filaments free (or united at the very base). Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), sessile or subsessile, not constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, not beaked. Flowers in July, August, September and October. Occurs in the Northern and Eremaean Botanical Province, in the Great Sandy Desert, Pilbara and Dampierland IBRA regions.