Oxylobium ellipticum

Oxylobium ellipticum is a spreading much branched shrub up to high. The leaves are in irregular whorls of three or four, elliptic, sometimes lance-shaped, rarely heart-shaped, long, wide, leathery, brown tomentose beneath, dark green, reticulate veins and margins recurved, apex blunt, often with an abrupt point. It has golden yellow pea flowers in dense terminal clusters. Flowering occurs in spring and summer and the fruit is a rounded, grey-brown, oval-shaped pod about long and covered with long, silky hairs. ==Taxonomy and naming==

Oxylobium ellipticum was first formally described in 1811 by Robert Brown and the description was published in Hortus Kewensis. The specific epithet (ellipticum) refers to the shape of the leaves. ==Distribution and habitat==

Oxylobium ellipticum is widespread in montane ecosystems in Victoria, and frequently grows on skeletal soils and organic brown peat on quartzite sand. ==References==