Leptosema aculeatum
Leptosema aculeatum is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to inland areas of Western Australia. It is a shrub with a tuft of stems up to tall, many rigid, strongly flattened and spiny branchlets, leaves reduced to scales, red flowers, and beaked pods densely covered with silky hairs.
Description
Leptosema aculeatum is a shrub with a tuft of stems up to tall, its branchlets strongly compressed or flattened and spiny. Its leaves are reduced to awl-shaped scales, long. The flowers are red, resupinate, and borne in rose-shaped, loosely arranged clusters spreading along the soil surface on a rhachis up to long with egg-shaped bracts about long. The sepals are long and form a tube about long. The standard petal is enclosed in the sepals, the wings are linear, long and wide with thekeel protruding and long. The ovary is more or less sessile, densely covered with silky hairs with about 60 ovules. The pods are sessile, elliptic, beaked, long and wide and densely covered with silky hairs.