Podolobium R.Br. (1811) in W.T.Aiton, Hort. Kew. (ed.
2) 3, 9.
6 spp.
Gr.: podion, foot (e.g. of
a vase) and lobos, pod; refers to the stipe of the fruit.
South-eastern Australia.
Dry sclerophyll (eucalypt) forest, woodland and heath.
B.Wiecek (1991), Fl. New South Wales 2, 461-464
(species 1-6 under Oxylobium); Crisp & P.H.Weston
(1995), Advances Legume Syst. 7, 262-263, 279-281.
Shrubs diagnosed by rigid spreading stipules and peltate hairs.
Recently segregated from Oxylobium. Molecular
data suggest that the genus is not monophyletic (Crisp & Cook in Syst. Bot. 28, 705-713, 2003).
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Podolobium alpestre, © M. Crisp
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