Citation: F. Muell., Wing's South Sci. Rec. 3:128 (1883).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Mulga trefoil.

Description:
Pubescent perennial subshrub with a long tap root; branches to 20 cm long, loosely spreading; leaves alternate, 5-15 cm long, with 3-9 lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate leaflets; leaflets 15-70 x 4-13 mm, discolorous, with 8-13 oblique lateral veins, pubescent above, sericeous below, the terminal longer than the laterals, borne on the distal third or half of the rhachis; stipules narrow-triangular, subulate, to 5 mm long, leathery, sericeous.

Flowers 4-6 mm long, 2-4 in axillary racemes or on a long peduncle with flowers in distant clusters, the racemes often lengthening in fruit to 10 cm; pedicel shorter than the calyx; calyx campanulate, c. 4 mm long, densely pubescent, with subequal lanceolate teeth about as long as the tube, the upper 2 teeth partly united, the lowest 1 slightly longer; petals yellow-green; standard orbicular, c. 4 mm across, tomentose on the back; wings oblong, about two-thirds of the length of the standard; keel semicircular in outline, shorter than the wings, glabrous.

Pod linear, 20-40 x c. 4 mm, slightly flattened, straight at first but turning up distally, pubescent, light-brown, 4-9-seeded; seed globular, 2-3 mm, yellow to greenish, mottled with brown.

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 424.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NW, LE, GT, FR, EA.   W.Aust.; N.T.; Qld; N.S.W. Sporadic throughout the central regions of Australia. Conservation status: native Flowering time: throughout the year when suitable rains occur.

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

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available