Oxylobium cordifolium
Oxylobium cordifolium, commonly known as the heart-leaved shaggy pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to New South Wales. It is a small, prostrate shrub with long, wiry branches, heart-shaped leaves and orange-red flowers.
Description
Oxylobium cordifolium is a small, spreading shrub to about high with branches up to long and are densely covered with long, soft, straight hairs. The heart-shaped leaves are arranged opposite or whorled, long, wide, margins and apex curved downward, upper surface covered with warty protuberances, underside sparingly hairy. The orange-red flowers are borne at the end of branches in racemes, usually in groups of three, standard petal long, bracts lance-shaped and taper to a point. The soft, oval-shaped seed pod is covered in soft, silky hairs, sessile, long and tapering to a point. Flowering occurs from spring to early summer.
Taxonomy
Oxylobium cordifolium was first formally described in 1807 by Henry Cranke Andrews and the description was published in The Botanist's Repository for New, and Rare Plants. The specific epithet means "heart leaved".
Heart-leaved shaggy pea grows on damp, sandy soils in heath and coastal headlands south of Sydney, Tumut and Conjola districts.