About Oxylobium ellipticum (Vent.) R.Br.
Oxylobium ellipticum is a spreading, heavily branched shrub that grows up to 2 meters (6 feet 7 inches) tall. Its leaves are arranged in irregular whorls of three or four. Most leaves are elliptic, occasionally lance-shaped, and rarely heart-shaped. They measure 0.5–3 cm (0.20–1.18 in) long and 3–10 mm (0.12–0.39 in) wide. The leaves are leathery, dark green on the upper surface, and covered in brown dense woolly hairs on the underside, with visible net-like reticulate veins, recurved margins, and a blunt apex that often ends in a short sharp point. This species produces golden yellow pea-shaped flowers arranged in dense clusters at the ends of stems. Flowering takes place in spring and summer. The fruit is a rounded, grey-brown oval pod that is approximately 7–8 mm (0.28–0.31 in) long and covered in long, silky hairs. Oxylobium ellipticum is widely distributed across montane ecosystems in Victoria, open forest and woodland on the tablelands and south-west slopes of New South Wales, and Tasmania. It frequently grows on skeletal soils and organic brown peat over quartzite sand.
