Indigofera chamaeclada Peter G.Wilson & Rowe subsp. chamaeclada

Scientific Description

Twining or climbing plants, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, not spiny, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, compound, alternate, not continuous with stem, 25-35 mm long, hairy, with simple hairs, flat with flat 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, 2-3.5 mm long, without glands, ribless. Pedicel present, 1.5-2 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present but early deciduous. Calyx 3-3.5 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 6-8 mm long, uniformly coloured, purple; claws absent; standard 7-8 mm long, hairy at least in part, not auriculate, wings 5-6.5 mm long, not auriculate, keel 6-7 mm long, not beaked, not auriculate, hairy at least in part. Stamens ten; anthers 0.5 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments united in an open sheath with one free stamen, 4.5-5.5 mm long. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), 20-27 mm long, 2-3 mm wide, sessile or subsessile, not constricted between the seeds, round in cross-section, hairy, with simple hairs, not beaked. Flowers in May, June, July and August. Occurs in the Eremaean Botanical Province, in the Murchison IBRA regions.