Desmodiopsis campylocaulon (Benth.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi

Scientific Description

Twining or climbing plants, herb. Stems terete, not spiny, glabrous; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, compound, alternate, not continuous with stem, 55-170 mm long, hairy, with simple hairs, flat with recurved margins; margins entire; tubercles absent, pinnately arranged, terminal leaflet present, stalked; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present and persistent to older leaves, 10-10.5 mm long, without glands, ribless. Pedicel present, 2-7 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles absent. Calyx 2.5-4 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla uniformly coloured, white; claws absent; standard 3.5-4.5 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 3.5-4 mm long, not auriculate, keel 4-5 mm long, not beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; filaments united in an open sheath with one free stamen. Fruit indehiscent and not splitting into sections, sessile or subsessile, constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, not beaked. Flowers in March. Occurs in the Eremaean Botanical Province, in the Pilbara IBRA regions.