Common Name

Desert Broombush, Round Broombush; Round Templetonia

Family

Fabaceae

Notes

Shrub to 3m tall. Leafless. Flowers brownish yellow, or brownish red and yellow. Flowers pea-shaped, with five petals, two almost joined together. Flowers single or in pairs, with stalks arising from notches in the plant stems. Vulnerable Vic.

Differs from Templetonia sulcata and Templetonia rossii in that the flowering branches are cylindrical and 0.8-1.5mm wide, with blunt tips.

Description and photo in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 423

PlantNET description with line drawings and photo of dried specimen: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Templetonia~egena