Mirbelia stipitata Crisp & J.M.Taylor

Scientific Description

Erect, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, not spiny, glabrous; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades absent or apparently so (reduced to scales), alternate, glabrous, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent, 0.8-2; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present but early deciduous ( only visible on youngest leaves ). Pedicel present, 2.2-3 mm long, glabrous. Bracteoles present and persistent. Calyx 3.5-5 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla wings 5.5-6 mm long, auriculate, keel 5-6 mm long, not beaked, auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), stipitate, not constricted between the seeds, round in cross-section, not beaked. Flowers in August. Occurs in the Eremaean Botanical Province, in the Murchison IBRA regions. Conservation Code Priority Three (P3).