Otholobium obliquum (E.Mey.) C.H.Stirt.

An erect shrub up to 15 metres. Stems branched, villous when young, at length glabrescent, leafy. Leaves trifoliolate, petiolate, stipulate; petioles up to 6 mm long; leaflets up to 3.1 cm long and 1 cm broad, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, mucronulate, densely glandular, glabrescent, shiny; lateral leaflets unequal sided. Stipules membraneous, about 6 mm long and 2.5 mm broad, ovate. Flowers axillary, in threes. Pedicels shorter than the leaves; sometimes three pedicels on short peduncle. Calyx-tube 2 mm long, 7-8 mm in diameter, nerved, glandular, villous; lobes villous, glandular, ciliate, glabrous on the inner surface; upper and lateral lobes 4-5 mm long, 1-1.5 mm broad, lanceolate, acute; lowest lobe up to 8 mm long, and 3 mm broad, ovate, very acute, almost cuspidate. Vexillum 9 mm long, 7-8 mm broad, obovate, with a channelled claw 1 mm long; alae up to 1 cm long, 3-4 mm broad, with a linear claw 2-3 mm long; carina 3-4 mm long, 2 mm broad, with a linear claw 2-3 mm long. Ovary glabrous; style 2.5 mm long, glabrous.