Kennedia carinata (Benth.) Domin

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, 13-105 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. Pedicel present, 12-25 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles absent. Calyx 6-7 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 9-15.5 mm long, multicoloured, mostly red or purple, with some red or purple spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 8-15 mm long, glabrous, auriculate, wings 8-12.5 mm long, not auriculate, keel 7.6-12.5 mm long, not beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.4-0.7 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments united in an open sheath with one free stamen, 8-12.5 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, glabrous; style 8-11 mm long, glabrous, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), 27-30 mm long, 7-10 mm wide, sessile or subsessile, not constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, hairy, with simple hairs, not beaked. Flowers in September, October and November. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Jarrah Forest, Warren, Esperance and Swan Coastal Plain IBRA regions.