Citation: F. Muell., Enum. Greg. Pl. 5 (1859).

Synonymy: C. dissitiflora Benth. var. eremaea (F. Muell.)Benth., Fl. Aust. 2:184 (1864); C. dissitiflora sensu J. Black, Fl.S. Aust. 306 (1924) & 448 (1948), non Benth.

Common name: Bluebush pea, loose-flowered rattlepod.

Description:
Softwooded shrubs to 1 m high, densely grey-tomentose to glabrous; leaves 1- or 3-foliolate, the terminal leaflet narrow-elliptic to oblong or ovate, 10-80 x 2-25 ram, lateral leaflets when present usually less than 10 mm long; stipules absent or less than 1 mm long (rarely to 4 mm and spreading).

Flowers 10-18 mm long, on pedicels 3-4 mm long, 15-30 loosely spaced in terminal racemes on the 6-40 cm long peduncle; bract lanceolate, 1-2 mm long, persistent; bracteoles attached just below the calyx, lanceolate, smaller than the bract; calyx campanulate, with 5 subequal lanceolate teeth, usually pubescent, equalling the calyx tube; petals yellow; standard orbicular, usually broader than long, auricles scarcely developed, the claw rather broad, wings triangular narrowed to the base, the claw upcurved; keel varying from short and orbicular to long and straight, with the beak slightly upturned; ovary shortly stipitate, pubescent, 8-10-ovulate.

Pod narrow-obovate in outline, slightly oblique, 15-30 x 3-7 mm, on a 3-4 mm long stipe; seed chrome-yellow with a faintly dimpled surface.

Published illustration: Jessop (1981) Flora of central Australia, fig. 175.

Conservation status: native Flowering time: all the year round, mainly Aug. — Sept.

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

Biology: No text

Key to Infraspecific taxa:

1. Plant more or less grey-tomentose to pubescent; leaflets narrow-oblong or elliptic, rarely ovate	subsp. eremaea 2a.
1. Plant glabrous or sparsely and inconspicuously pubescent; leaflets ovate or rhomboid to oblong	subsp. strehlowii 2b.

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