Grona muelleri (Benth.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi

Scientific Description

Twining or climbing plants, herb. Stems terete, not spiny, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, compound, alternate, not continuous with stem, 35-65 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, 5-6 mm long, without glands, ribless. Pedicel present, 9-11 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles absent. Calyx 2.8-3.5 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla uniformly coloured, pink; standard 3.5-5.5 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, keel 3.5-4.5 mm long, not auriculate. Stamens ten; filaments united in an open sheath with one free stamen, 3.2-4 mm long. Fruit indehiscent and not splitting into sections, 15-28 mm long, 4-5 mm wide, sessile or subsessile, constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, hairy, with simple hairs, not beaked. Flowers in March, April, May, June and July. Occurs in the Northern and Eremaean Botanical Province, in the Pilbara, Northern Kimberley and Victoria Bonaparte IBRA regions.