Mirbelia ferricola
Mirbelia ferricola is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to inland parts of the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with leaves reduced to small scales, and red and yellow flowers arranged in racemes at the ends of the branches. Description
Mirbelia ferricola is an erect shrub that typically grows to  high and  wide. Its leaves are arranged alternately along the stems but are reduced to egg-shaped to triangular scales  long,  wide and silky hairy on the upper surface. The flowers are arranged in racemes on the ends of branchlets, each flower on a  pedicel  long with bracts  long and similar bracteoles  long, the bracts and bracteoles falling off before the flowers open. The sepals are  long and joined at the base, the lower three lobes  long. The standard petal is kidney-shaped with a shallowly notched centre,  long,  wide and yellow and red, the wings egg-shaped,  long and pale yellow with a reddish base, and the keel  long and creamy yellow with a red tip. Flowering occurs from late June to November and the fruit is an inflated, oval to elliptic pod  long. Taxonomy
Mirbelia ferricola was first formally described in 2012 by Ryonen Butcher in the journal Nuytsia from specimens collected in the Helena and Aurora Range in 2008. The specific epithet (ferricola) means "iron-inhabiting", referring to the soil in which this species grows. Distribution and habitat
This mirbelia grows on rocky lateritic soils in woodland and shrubland in banded iron formations in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie and Murchison bioregions of south-western, Western Australia. Conservation status
This mirbelia is listed as "Priority Three" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, meaning that it is poorly known and known from only a few locations but is not under imminent threat. References

ferricola
Fabales of Australia
Flora of Western Australia
Plants described in 2012