Flemingia parviflora Benth.

Scientific Description

Prostrate,spreading or scrambling, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like) or herb. Stems terete, not spiny, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, compound, alternate, not continuous with stem, 80-170 mm long, hairy, with simple hairs, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tuberculate, pinnately arranged, terminal leaflet present, stalked; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present but early deciduous ( only visible on youngest leaves ). Pedicel present, 2-2.5 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles absent. Calyx 6-7 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 7-8 mm long, uniformly coloured, mauve; claws absent; standard 6-7 mm long, auriculate, wings 5-6 mm long, not auriculate, keel 6.5-7 mm long, not beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.5-0.6 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments united in an open sheath with one free stamen, 5-6.5 mm long. Ovary stipitate, hairy or glandular; style 7-8 mm long, hairy or glandular towards the base, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), 17 mm long, 10 mm wide, stipitate, not constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, hairy, with simple hairs, not beaked. Flowers in January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August and October. Occurs in the Northern Botanical Province, in the Northern Kimberley IBRA regions.