Templetonia drummondii
Templetonia drummondii is a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is an upright, broom-like shrub with mostly yellow pea flowers.
Description
Templetonia drummondii is a small glabrous understory shrub with numerous prostrate stems up to long, stems with parallel ridges and more or less terete. Leaves have dense hairs in leaf axils, petiole up to long, lower leaves oval to almost egg-shaped, upper leaves larger, glabrous, pointed at the apex and veined on the lower surface The flowers are borne singly in leaf axils on pedicels up to long, upper lobes joined, lowest lobe longer, brownish or purple yellow, wings up to long. Flowering occurs from August to September and the fruit is a pod long and wide.
Templetonia drummondii was first formally described in 1864 by George Bentham and the description was published in Flora Australiensis.The specific epithet is in honour of James Drummond.
Distribution and habitat
This species grows on lateritic soils and is endemic to Western Australia.