Appearance
"Mirbelia platylobioides" is a small, scrambling, prostrate plant with soft, hairy stems to about 40 cm long. The leaves are narrow-oval to oval shaped, stiff, 15–40 mm long and 5–15 mm wide, upper surface shiny and veined, silky-hairy below, arranged opposite or alternate ending in a point at the apex. The flowers are more or less sessile borne in small groups or rarely singly in leaf axils or at the end of branches. The corolla 14–18 mm long, yellow to orange with a red centre, calyx, 7–9 mm long with soft, silky hairs, lobes tapering to a point more or less equal to the length of the floral tube. Flowering occurs in spring and the fruit is a pod 15–20 mm long, compressed with silky hairs.Distribution
This mirbelia grows in open woodland in heath and sandy soils south from Rylstone, in the Southern Highlands, Blue Mountains to Eden.References:
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