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Desmodium trichostachyum Benth.

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Reference
Fl.Austral. 2:234-235 (1864)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Not Current

Prostrate annual or perennial, herb. Fl. pink-purple, Mar to Aug. Sand, loam. Damp situations, near creeks or pools, sandstone outcrops.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 7 June 1996

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, 5-45 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, 5.5-8 mm long, without glands, ribless. Pedicel present, 2-6 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles absent. Calyx 1-2 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla multicoloured, mostly pink or purple, with some pink or purple spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 2.5-3.5 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 1.5-2.5 mm long, not auriculate, keel 1.5-3 mm long, not beaked, auriculate or 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, April, May, June, July and August. Occurs in the Northern Botanical Province, in the Northern Kimberley, Victoria Bonaparte, Central Kimberley and Dampierland IBRA regions.