Platylobium obtusangulum Hook.

Common Flat Pea

Scrambling or erect shrub to about 1 m tall. Leaves opposite, variable but mostly with 3 points, 1-3 cm long, 1-3.5 cm wide, sometimes similar to the leaves of p. triangulare r. Br. which has distinctly stalked pods and leaves; stalk short or absent. Flowers 1-3 per axil, orange-yellow with pinkish red base, keel reddish with white base; spring to early summer. Fruit pods to about 1.5 cm long.

SA, Vic, Tas.

Source: Spencer, R. (2002). Fabaceae. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 3. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 2. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.

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Distribution map
kingdom Plantae
phylum   Tracheophyta
class    Magnoliopsida
superorder     Rosanae
order      Fabales
family       Fabaceae
genus        Platylobium Sm.