Citation: F. Muell., Trans. Phil. Soc. Vic. 1:40 (1855).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Mountain psoralea, dusky scurf-pea.

Description:
Almost glabrous perennial herb or subshrub, with ascending stems; usually dark in hue with sparse more or less appressed dark hairs; leaves digitately 3-foliolate; leaflets close together, lanceolate to ovate-oblong, entire, mostly acute, 2-5 cm long, on petioles to 10 cm long.

Flowers in 3's along the rhachis of 2-9 cm long racemes, on wiry but stout peduncles to 20 (or more) cm long, much longer than the leaves; bract ovate, hairy, glandular; calyx 3-4 mm long, darkly hairy, with the lower lobe slightly longer and larger than the others and as long as the tube; petals pinkish-purple; standard about twice as long as the calyx.

Pod inserted, ovoid, c. 3 mm long, glabrous, black, rugose-wrinkled and shining, indehiscent; seed yellow.

Image source: fig. 319A in J.P. Jessop and H.R. Toelken Ed. 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Galbraith (1977) Wild flowers of south-east Australia, pl. 16.

Distribution:  Shaded places in forest, more common at higher altitudes.   N.S.W.; Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Dec. — Jan.

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

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available