Citation: Domin, Biblthca Bot. 89:791 (1926).

Synonymy: -C. sophera sensu J. Black, Fl. S. Aust. 430 (1948).

Common name: Yellow pea.

Description:
Shrub to 2 m; glabrous, sometimes pruinose; leaflets 4-7 pairs, ovate to ovate-lanceolate; petiole with a large squat dark gland towards the base.

Flowers in a corymbose raceme; upper 3 stamens sterile, lateral 6 fertile, lowest generally reduced and sterile.

Pod 6-8 x c. 1 cm, cylindrical when mature, straight or curved; seeds crowded, flattish, dull, olive-brown, lying at right angles to the valve and their flattened faces parallel to the membranous partitions.

Distribution:    W.Aust.; N.T.; Qld. Conservation status: native Flowering time: in late summer to early winter.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

Taxonomic notes: C. barclayaria Sweet, Fl. Aust. t.32 (1828). An erect herbaceous perennial with leaflets in 4-7 pairs, lanceolate to lanceolate-oblong with slightly smaller more slender pod than C. planitiicola, has been recorded from a single persistent colony near the Salisbury Railway Station.Fig. 247F.

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