Citation: Domin, Biblthca Bot. 89:802 (1926).

Synonymy: N. monosperma sensu J. Black, Fl. S. Aust. 429 (1948), non F. Muell.

Common name: None

Description:
Prostrate or weakly ascending herb; stems c. 60 cm long, terete, angled towards the apex, glabrous or pubescent; leaves with 2-4 rarely 5 or 6 pairs of pinnae; petioles glabrous or pubescent, with 1 conspicuous gland; stipels 2 subtending each pair of pinnae; rhachis glabrous or ciliate, occasionally with a conspicuous gland just below each pinna pair; pinna rhachis ciliate on the margins; leaflets 7-25 pairs, 4-11 mm long, 1-3 mm broad, margins minutely ciliate;

Inflorescence a congested axillary pedunculate spike; peduncles usually bearing a pair of bracts; spikes globoid or nearly ellipsoid, green, 35-55-flowered;

Legumes ovoid, flat, 7-10 mm long, distinctly pubescent; seeds dark-brown, orbicular-compressed, 1 rarely 2 per legume.

Image source: fig. 248A in J.P. Jessop and H.R. Toelken Ed. 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  S.Aust.: LE.   W.Aust.; N.T.; Qld; N.S.W. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Sept. — Nov.

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

Biology: No text

Taxonomic notes: J. Black's record (1948) of N. gracilis Benth. forma gracilis (=N. gracilis Benth. var. villosula Benth.) is considered to be based on a non-S.Aust. collection and this species has not been found in S.Aust.

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