Pomaria lactea (Schinz) B.B.Simpson & G.P.Lewis

Low much-branched shrub up to 50 cm high. Stems densely appressed-pubescent with whitish hairs, plumose setae very few or absent; dark glands present and very conspicuous on stems, leaves, inflorescences, calyces and pods. Stipules up to 6 x 2 mm, laciniate, often rigid and persistent. Leaves: petiole and rhachis glabrous to appressed-or spreading-pubescent, setae, if present, not plumose; petiole 0.3-2.3 cm long, often persisting as a rigid subspine after the fall of the rest of the leaf; rhachis (excluding terminal pinna) 0.3-3.8 cm long; pinnae (1)2-5 pairs; rhachides of lateral pinnae (0.3)0.6-1.8 cm long, with 3-7 pairs of leaflets; rhachides of terminal pinna 0.4-2.4 cm long, with 4-6 pairs of leaflets; leaflets 3-8 x 1-3 mm, oblong to elliptic-oblong, glabrous. Inflorescence (including peduncle) up to 21 cm long; pedicels up to 3 mm long in flower; bracts up to 5 x 2 mm, laciniate, deciduous before the buds open. Calyx with a very short tube, lobes 5, unequal, the lower lobe up to 7 x 3 mm, the upper ones up to 6 x 1 mm. Petals 5, unequal, up to 8 x 3 mm, recorded as red, dark red, brownish-pink and purple-orange. Stamens 10; filaments alternately longer and shorter, up to 5 mm long. Ovary subsessile, up to 4 x 1 mm. Pods distinctly curved or falcate, 2.4-3.4 X 0.7-0.9 cm, pale buff with conspicuous dark glands, with a short dense indumentum interspersed with plumose setae. Seeds 3-5 per pod, 5-5.5 x 4.5-5 mm.