''Podolobium scandens'', commonly known as netted shaggy-pea, is a flowering plant in the family

Fabaceae Fabaceae () or Leguminosae,International Code of Nomen ...

and is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...

to eastern Australia. It is a prostrate, small shrub with orange-yellow pea-like flowers and red markings.

Description

''Podolobium scandens'' is a low, spreading, prostrate shrub with branches sometimes up to long. The leaves are mostly arranged opposite, oval to egg-shaped to elliptic, long, wide, margins more or less finely scalloped, upper surface dark green, shiny and veined, lower surface paler with occasional hairs, apex either sharp, rounded or notched. The flowers are borne in

racemes A raceme () or racemoid is an unbranched, indeterminate type of inflorescence bearing flowers having short floral stalks along the shoots that bear the flowers. The oldest flowers grow close to the base and new flowers are produced as the shoo ...

in leaf axils or at the end of branches, the corolla about long, orange or yellow with brown reddish markings. Flowering occurs in spring to summer and the fruit is an egg-shaped pod long with soft, short hairs.

Taxonomy and naming

The species was first described in 1805 by James Edward Smith and given the name ''Chorizema scandens''. In 1825

Augustin Pyramus de Candolle Augustin Pyramus (or Pyrame) de Candolle (, , ; 4 February 17789 September 1841) was a Swiss people, Swiss botany, botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched de Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at a herbarium. Within a couple ...

changed the name to ''Podolobium scandens'' and the description was published in '' Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis''.

Distribution and habitat

Netted shaggy-pea grows in rocky clay soils in sclerophyll forests on ranges and coastal situations north of Bodalla in New South Wales.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q65945887 Fabales of Australia Flora of New South Wales Flora of Queensland scandens Plants described in 1825 Taxa named by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle