Botanical name: Smithia setulosa    Family: Fabaceae (pea family)

Bristly Smithia is an erect branched herb, up to 1 m tall; branches faintly striped, bristly-hairy; hairs yellow. Leaves are pinnately compound; axis up to 6 cm long; leaflets 6-7 pairs, 2-3.5 x 0.6- 0.8 cm, elliptic-oblong, bristly-sawtoothed, tip blunt with a long bristle, base flat or somewhat heart-shaped, unequal-sided; stipules 2-2.5 cm long, scarious, striped, peltate, cuspidate. Flowers are yellow, about 1.5 cm long, usually in branch-end one-sided panicles; bracts falling off; bracteoles 2. Sepal-cup is 2-lipped; upper lip large, blunt; lower pointed; nerves parallel as on the bracteoles, bristly-hairy without. Petals are 5, free. Stamens are 5 + 5, diadelphous; anthers uniform. Pods are 8 or more jointed; joints turgid, netveined, folded within the sepal-cup. Flowering: October.

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