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Vicia monantha subsp. triflora (Ten.) B.L.Burtt & P.Lewis

Reference
Kew Bull. 510 (1950)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Alien to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Procumbent or twining annual, herb, 0.05-0.3 m high. Fl. purple-blue-white, Apr to May or Jul to Oct. Brown clay loam, red sandy loam, granite. Damp areas, roadsides, cropland, paddocks.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 24 August 2007

Scientific Description

Twining or climbing plants. Stems terete, not spiny, glabrous; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, compound, alternate, continuous with stem, 40-110 mm long, hairy, with simple hairs, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent, leaflets 8-24, pinnately arranged, terminal leaflet absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules apparently absent even from the youngest leaves. Pedicel present, 2-3 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles absent. Calyx 5-6 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 20-22 mm long, multicoloured, mostly purple or blue, with some purple or blue spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 19-20 mm long, not auriculate, wings 15-18 mm long, not auriculate, keel 12-15 mm long, not beaked, not auriculate. Stamens ten; anthers 0.2 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments united in an open sheath with one free stamen, 12-12.2 mm long. Ovary stipitate, glabrous; style 12-20 mm long, hairy or glandular towards the base, bearded (with a tuft of hairs at apex), terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), 25-35 mm long, 9-10 mm wide, stipitate or sessile or subsessile, not constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, glabrous, not beaked. Flowers in April, May, August, October and November. Occurs in the Eremaean and South-West Botanical Province, in the Coolgardie, Avon Wheatbelt and Esperance IBRA regions.

C. Hollister and K.R. Thiele, 24 October 2023

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Esperance Plains.
IBRA Subregions
Eastern Goldfield, Fitzgerald, Katanning, Merredin.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Beverley, Coolgardie, Dundas, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Merredin, Narembeen, Ravensthorpe.