Mirbelia stipitata
Mirbelia stipitata is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to inland areas of Western Australia. It is a spiny, more or less leafless shrub with yellow and red flowers. Description
Mirbelia stipitata is a shrub that typically grows to a height of  and is more or less glabrous, its branchlets spiny. Its leaves are reduced to scales less than  long. The flowers are arranged singly on the ends of branchlets on a pedicel  long with egg-shaped bracts about  long, and similar bracteoles that fall off as the flowers open. The sepals are  long and joined at the base, the upper two lobes forming a "lip". The standard petal is broadly kidney-shaped, about  long and  wide, the wings about  long and the keel  long. Flowering has been observed in August and the fruit is a stalked, elliptic pod about  long. Taxonomy
Mirbelia stipitata was first formally described in 1987 by Michael Crisp and Joan M. Taylor in the Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens from specimens collected by Paul Graham Wilson near Laverton in 1968. The specific epithet (stipitata) means "stalked", referring to the ovary. Distribution
This mirbelia is only known from two collections in the Murchison bioregion of inland Western Australia. Conservation status
Mirbelia stipitata 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

Flora of Western Australia
Plants described in 1987
stipitata
Taxa named by Michael Crisp