Tephrosia sp. Newman (A.A. Mitchell PRP 29)

Scientific Description

Prostrate,spreading or scrambling, herb. Stems angular, not spiny, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, compound, alternate, continuous with stem, 40-110 mm long, hairy, with simple hairs, flat with recurved margins; margins entire; tubercles absent, leaflets 5-7, pinnately arranged, terminal leaflet present, stalked; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present and persistent to older leaves, 13 mm long, without glands, ribless. Pedicel present, 3.2 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present and persistent. Calyx 6 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 10 mm long, uniformly coloured, orange; claws present. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), 32 mm long, (4-)5 mm wide, constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, hairy, with simple hairs, not beaked. Flowers in April, July and September. Occurs in the Eremaean Botanical Province, in the Great Sandy Desert, Pilbara, Gascoyne and Little Sandy Desert IBRA regions.