Kennedia coccinea (Curtis) Vent. subsp. coccinea

Scientific Description

Twining or climbing plants, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, not spiny, glabrous; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, compound, alternate, not continuous with stem, 25-105 mm long, glabrous, 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. Pedicel present, 3-5.5 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles absent. Calyx 6-8 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 14-14.5 mm long, multicoloured, mostly pink or orange, with some pink or orange spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 13.3-14.5 mm long, glabrous, auriculate, wings 10-12.5 mm long, not auriculate, keel 9.5-11 mm long, not beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.6-0.8 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments united in an open sheath with one free stamen, 9-10.4 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, hairy or glandular; style 11-12.5 mm long, hairy or glandular towards the base, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), 30-60 mm long, 3-6 mm wide, sessile or subsessile, not constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, glabrous, not beaked. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Mallee, Warren, Esperance and Swan Coastal Plain IBRA regions.