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

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Small psoralea, small scurf-pea.

Description:
Trailing ascending perennial herb or subshrub, almost glabrous; branches wiry, short, sometimes prostrate, arising from a corky-woody often flexuose tap root; leaves on 3-5 cm long wiry petioles, with 3 close together lanceolate or oblanceolate to oblong leaflets 5-25 x 2-6 mm, with sprinkled hairs usually on both sides; stipules lanceolate, c. 3 mm long, thin-leathery.

Flowers several to 30 or more, in 3's along the 1-3 cm long rhachis; raceme condensed, on 2-10 cm long wiry ascending peduncles much longer than the leaves; bracts suborbicular, c. 1 mm, with pale hairs and some intermixed dark ones, caducous or not; calyx ovate, 4-5 mm long, slightly truncate at the base, on a short slender pedicel less than 1 mm long, covered with white short appressed hairs; teeth longer or shorter than the tube, the lower slightly larger than the others, on a slightly expanded lower lip, the 10 veins often darker on the ridges; petals bluish-pink, lilac or almost white, a little longer than the calyx.

Pod ovoid, c. 3 mm long, brown-green, white-pubescent, slightly laterally compressed, indehiscent.

Image source: fig. 321A in J.P. Jessop and H.R. Toelken Ed. 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:    N.S.W.; Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Oct. — Dec.

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

Biology: No text

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