Indigofera pratensis F.Muell.

Scientific Description

Prostrate,spreading or scrambling, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, not spiny, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, compound, alternate, continuous with stem, 55-105 mm long, hairy, with simple hairs, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent, leaflets 11-19, pinnately arranged, terminal leaflet present, stalked; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present and persistent to older leaves. Pedicel present, 1-2 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present but early deciduous. Corolla 6-7.5 mm long, uniformly coloured, pink; claws absent; standard 5.2-6 mm long, hairy at least in part, not auriculate, keel 7-7.3 mm long, not beaked, not auriculate, hairy at least in part. Stamens ten, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments united in an open sheath with one free stamen, 3.5-4 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, glabrous; style 5 mm long, glabrous, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), sessile or subsessile, not constricted between the seeds, round in cross-section, not beaked. Flowers in January and October. Occurs in the Northern Botanical Province, in the Northern Kimberley IBRA regions.