Mirbelia confertiflora
Mirbelia confertiflora is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a rigid, bushy shrub with linear leaves and yellow to orange flowers arranged in racemes near the end of the branches. Description
Mirbelia confertiflora is a rigid, bush shrub that typically grows to a height of up to , its stems with a few silky hairs pressed against the surface. Its leaves are linear, mostly  long,  wide on a petiole about  long, and sharply-pointed with the edges rolled under. The flowers are arranged in racemes on the ends of branches or in upper leaf axils, and have narrowly lance-shaped bracts and bracteoles at the base. The sepals are  long, densely hairy and joined at the base, the lobes  long. The petals are yellow-orange, the standard petal  long and  wide, the wings  long and the keel  long. The fruit is an oval pod  long. Taxonomy
Mirbelia confertiflora was first formally described in 1977 by Leslie Pedley in the journal  Austrobaileya from specimens he collected at Jolly's Falls near Stanthorpe in 1963. The specific epithet (confertiflora) means "crowded-flowered". Distribution and habitat
This mirbelia grows in forest and heath on granite and is only known from the Boonoo Boonoo National Park in Queensland and the Gibraltar Range National Park in New South Wales. Conservation status
Mirbelia confertiflora is listed as "near threatened" under the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992. References

confertiflora
Fabales of Australia
Flora of New South Wales
Flora of Queensland
Plants described in 1977