Citation: A. Lee, Contr. N.S.W. natn. Herb. 1, 4:255 (1948).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: (Heart-leaved)poison-pea.

Description:
Stems with few white appressed hairs; hairs rather more confined to young parts which become glabrescent, also more on the peduncle and pedicels, where they are often dark; leaves 3-10 cm long; leaflets numerous (21 or more up to 43) obcordate-orbicular or oblong-retuse, 1-5 mm long, usually 2-3 x 1-3 mm, with a few white appressed hairs sprinkled beneath, the hairs more confined to the margins, petiole and short petiolule.

Flowers 6-8 mm long, blue, peduncles 5-25 cm long, 9-25- flowered, with flowers on the distal half or two-thirds of the rhachis; style tip with an extended tapering terminal segment which is usually straight, sometimes slightly inflexed, with short hairs along the back.

Image source: fig. 336A in J.P. Jessop and H.R. Toelken Ed. 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:    W.Aust.; N.T.; N.S.W. Flowering time: May — Aug. in the NW and Sept. — Nov. in the EP regions.

Biology: No text

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