Mirbelia platylobioides (DC.) Joy Thomps. APNI* 
Description: Prostrate shrub; stems to c. 40 cm long, silky-pubescent.
Leaves alternate or opposite, narrow-ovate to ovate, 15–40 mm long, 5–15 mm wide, apex pungent-pointed, upper surface strongly reticulate and shining, lower surface silky-pubescent.
Flowers ± sessile in axillary or terminal, few-flowered racemes or rarely solitary. Calyx 7–9 mm long, silky-pubescent, lobes acuminate, ± equal to tube. Corolla 14–18 mm long, orange to yellow with a red centre. Ovary sessile, densely pubescent; ovules 10–15.
Pod oblong, 15–20 mm long, pubescent, obtuse, laterally compressed.
Flowering: spring.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in heath or eucalypt woodland on sandy soil, chiefly on the ranges, south from Rylstone to the Eden district.
NSW subdivisions: SC, CT, ST, CWS
Text by M. F. Porteners
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 2 (1991)
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