Tephrosia stipuligera W.Fitzg.

Scientific Description

Prostrate,spreading or scrambling, herb. Stems terete, not spiny, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, compound, alternate, not continuous with stem, 20-40 mm long, hairy, with simple hairs, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent, leaflets 7-9, pinnately arranged, terminal leaflet present, stalked; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present and persistent to older leaves, 7.5-10 mm long, without glands, ribless. Pedicel present, 1.5-2 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present and persistent. Calyx 4.5-5.5 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 6-6.5 mm long, multicoloured, mostly pink or blue, with some pink or blue spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 5.2-6 mm long, hairy at least in part, not auriculate, wings 5-5.5 mm long, not auriculate, keel 5-6 mm long, not beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), 20-25 mm long, 3-4 mm wide, constricted between the seeds, round in cross-section, hairy, with simple hairs, not beaked. Flowers in May, June, July, August, September and October. Occurs in the Northern and Eremaean Botanical Province, in the Pilbara, Victoria Bonaparte, Central Kimberley, Ord-Victorian-Plain and Dampierland IBRA regions.