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Desmodium glareosum Pedley

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Reference
Austrobaileya 5:242-243 (1999)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Not Current

Annual, herb, to 0.15 m high. Fl. pink, Feb to Mar. Lateritic loam.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 1 October 1997

Scientific Description

Herb. Stems terete, not spiny, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, compound, alternate, not continuous with stem, 18-25 mm long, hairy, with simple hairs, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent, pinnately arranged, terminal leaflet present, stalked; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present and persistent to older leaves, 6-6.5 mm long, without glands, ribless. Pedicel present, 5-15 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles absent. Calyx 1.5-2 mm long, accrescent (enlarged in fruit) or not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla uniformly coloured, pink; standard 3-3.5 mm long, glabrous, auriculate or not auriculate, wings 2-2.5 mm long, not auriculate, keel 2-3 mm long, not auriculate. 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 February and March. Occurs in the Northern Botanical Province, in the Northern Kimberley and Central Kimberley IBRA regions.