Podolobium aestivum
Podolobium aestivum, is a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to New South Wales, Australia. It is an upright shrub with green spiky leaves and orange pea-like flowers. Description
Podolobium aestivum is an upright shrub  high, lower leaf surface and young stems covered with flattened or spreading hairs. The leaves are arranged opposite, usually  long,  wide, upper surface shiny and veined, margins more or less evenly lobed and sharply pointed. The stipules are stiff, sharp, curved, and up to  long. The flowers are borne in racemes in leaf axils, occasionally longer than the leaves, bracts  are oval-shaped and small. The orange corolla is about  long and the calyx about  long. Flowering occurs in spring and summer, and the fruit is an oblong shaped pod, more or less straight,  long, about  in diameter with short, soft hairs. Taxonomy and naming
Podolobium aestivum was first formally described in 1995 by Michael Crisp and Peter Henry Weston and the description was published Advances in Legume Systematics. The specific epithet (aestivum) means "pertaining to summer, and refers to the main flowering period". Distribution and habitat
This podolobium grows on rocky locations in sclerophyll forest in the Gibraltar Range and on Mount Warning in New South Wales. References

Fabales of Australia
Flora of New South Wales
aestivum
Plants described in 1995