Citation: F. Muell. ex Benth., Fl. Aust. 2:219 (1864).

Synonymy: S. concinna Bailey, QId Agric. J. 25:286 (1910).

Common name: None

Description:
Small apparently perennial herb, with prostrate or ascending stems 8 to over 30 cm long; indumentum of sparse scattered slightly flattened white appressed basifixed and laterally attached hairs; leaves 1-4 cm long, with 3-9 (usually 5-7) leaflets; leaflets obovate or narrow-obovate, 4-11 (usually 6-9) x 2-6 (rarely to 10) mm, apex obtuse or almost truncate, with a small point; the terminal a little longer than the laterals; all glabrous above, sprinkled with a few hairs below mostly near the central vein and margins; stipules narrow-deltoid, acuminate, 1-3 mm long, with few hairs.

Flowers 7-9 mm long, on pedicels 1-2 mm long, in 3-8-flowered racemes on the distal third of the 2-11 (often 7) cm long to 1 mm thick slender peduncles; bract linear-acute to setaceous, longer than the pedicel; bracteoles filiform, to 1 mm long, with few hairs; calyx 5-6.5 mm long, almost glabrous except along the veins and teeth margins and inside; teeth narrow-triangular and long-subulate, 2-3 times longer than the short tube, with a hairy nerve running from the summit of each tooth to the base of the calyx; petals purple or crimson; standard elliptic to suborbicular, widely and shallowly notched, as long as broad, abruptly contracted into a broad claw 1-1.5 mm long, lamina usually with a yellow-green blotch centrally and slightly thickened just above the claw but without distinct calli; wings obovate, shorter than the other petals, auricle narrow-oblong above the wide 1-1.5 mm long and bent claw; keel much incurved, semicircular, obtuse, without pouches or folds, on a linear to 4 mm long claw; ovary subsessile, cylindrical, tapering into the style, appressed-pubescent with fine hairs; style stoutish, curved, erect, laterally flattened, gradually tapering into a straight or minutely inflexed tip, bearded all the way but more so distally, no hair-tufts behind the stigma.

Pod cylindrical, 12-15 x c. 4 mm, valves thin, swollen unevenly and slightly reticulate, evenly pubescent, to 10-seeded; seed orbicular-cordate, 2-2.5 mm across, olive-green, dark-mottled, shiny.

Image source: fig. 337A in J.P. Jessop and H.R. Toelken Ed. 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 418.

Distribution:  On sandy soils. S.Aust.: NW, LE, GT, EA.   W.Aust.; N.T.; Qld; N.S.W.;. Conservation status: native Flowering time: usually Aug. — Oct.

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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