Citation: Lindley, Edward's Bot. Reg. 20:t. 1715 (1835).

Synonymy: Kennedya nigricans

Common name: Black coral-pea, black kennedya.

Description:
Large woody twiners with stems lengthwise ribbed, pubescent, becoming glabrescent with age; leaves on petioles 1-3 cm long, with 1 or 3 leaflets; the upper on petiolules to 17 mm long; lamina broadly ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 3-9 x 2-7 cm, obtuse or emarginate, pinnately veined, with short hairs confined to the veins; lateral leaflets if present shortly petiolulate and smaller; stipules triangular, c. 3 mm long, striate, often reflexed; stipels setaceous, present even when there is only 1 leaflet.

Flowers narrow, 3-4 cm long, on pedicels 10-15 cm long, upright, usually paired in a raceme, on a peduncle 2-13 cm long, distally few-15-flowered; bracts lanceolate, 2-3 mm long, caducous; calyx tubular, c. 1 cm long, brown, with dense appressed pubescence; teeth triangular-lanceolate, c. 4 mm long, upper 2 connate except the tips; petals violet-purple almost black, on a long claw, auriculate; standard reflexed, oblong, c. 3 x 1 cm, with 2 large parallel greenish-yellow blotches; wings narrow, about as long as the keel, acute tips spreading; keel arcuate, narrow, acute, shorter than the standard; ovary filiform, with white appressed hairs.

Pod flat, 40-80 x 7-8 mm, brown, 10-15-seeded; seed almost transverse, laterally attached to a funicle.

Image source: fig. 316 in J.P. Jessop and H.R. Toelken Ed. 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Erickson et al. (1973) Flowers and plants of Western Australia, fig. 238.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: SL.   Endemic to W.Aust.;. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: Aug. — Dec.

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

Biology: Introduced as an ornamental in S.Aust.

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