Mezoneuron scortechinii F.Muell.

Sprawling shrub or liane. Stems commonly prickly, glaucous, pubescent to puberulous, sometimes glabrescent. Leaves: stipules triangular, 1.5–2 mm long, caducous; rachis 15–25 cm long, commonly recurved, pubescent, with prickles at base of pinnae; pinnae 4–10 pairs; stipellae absent; leaflets 5–11 pairs, oblong to oblong-elliptic but unequal at base, obtuse or retuse, 1–3 cm long, 7–18 mm wide, discolorous, pubescent below at least on midrib. Racemes 8–20 cm long, in terminal panicles; pedicels 3–4 mm long; bracts lanceolate, acute, 3–5 mm long, pubescent. Sepals ovate-orbicular; lowest 7–8 mm long; upper ones 5 mm long, reflexing. Petals slightly longer than sepals, obovate, yellow, glabrous; uppermost 5–6 mm long; other 4 shorter. Stamens 4–5 mm long, hairy in lower half; anthers 1 mm long. Pistil 7 mm long, glabrous; style bent back from ovary; stigma cup-like. Pod rhombic-ovate to orbicular, 3–5.5 cm long, 2–3.5 cm wide, with narrow wing along upper suture, red-brown to black. Seed 1, ± reniform, flat, 18 mm long, blue-green.

Margins of rainforests. Grows in black or red loam, sand or basaltic scree in vine thicket, on rainforest margins, in mixed eucalypt forest, on creek banks and on dunes in vine forest.

Can be grown by seedlings.