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- Reference
- Natuur-Geneesk.Arch.Ned.Indie 3:77 (1846)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Not Current
Prostrate or trailing annual or perennial, herb, 0.05-0.5 m high, 0.2-1.2 m wide. Fl. pink/red/purple/violet-white, Feb to Jun. Sandy soils, clay. Floodplains, seasonally wet areas, swamps.
Scientific Description
Twining or climbing plants, herb. Stems terete, not spiny, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, compound, alternate, not continuous with stem, 25-50 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, 3.6-4 mm long, without glands, ribless. Pedicel present, 3-4 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles absent. Calyx 2-3 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla multicoloured, mostly pink, red or purple, with some pink, red or purple spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 2.5-3 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 2-3 mm long, not auriculate, keel 2-3 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 February, March, April, May and June. Occurs in the Northern and Eremaean Botanical Province, in the Great Sandy Desert, Pilbara, Carnarvon, Northern Kimberley, Victoria Bonaparte, Central Kimberley, Ord-Victorian-Plain and Dampierland IBRA regions.