Jacksonia rhadinoclona

Jacksonia rhadinoclona is an erect to spreading, spindly shrub that typically grows up to high and wide. It has many greyish-green branches, its leaves reduced to egg-shaped, dark brown scales, long and wide. The flowers are scattered along the branches on pedicels long, with egg-shaped bracteoles long and wide at the base of the sepals The floral tube is long and ribbed, and the sepals are membranous, with lobes long, wide and fused for . The standard petal is yellow-orange with red markings, long and deep, the wings yellow-orange with red markings long, and the keel is red or purple, long. The stamens have red filaments, long. Flowering occurs from March to November, and the fruit is an oval, woody, densely hairy pod long and wide. ==Taxonomy==

Jacksonia rhadinoclona was first formally described in 1876 by Ferdinand von Mueller in his Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae from specimens collected near Cape Byron. Von Mueller gave the species the alternative name Jacksonia vernicosa var. rhadinoclona. ==Distribution and habitat==

Miles dogwood grows in open woodland on sand over sandstone from near Hughenden in central Queensland to north-east of Bourke in northern New South Wales. ==Conservation status==

Jacksonia rhadinoclona is listed as of "least concern" under the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992. ==References==