Citation: Domin, Biblthca Bot. 89:755 (1926).

Synonymy: T. purpurea sensu J. Black, Fl. S. Aust. 464 (1948), non (L.) Pers.

Common name: None

Description:
Much branched perennial subshrub with a long tap root; branches to 30 cm long, white, velutinous-tomentose; leaves alternate, 2-6 cm long, with 5-15 obovate to cuneate leaflets; leaflets 10-20 x 3-8 mm, sparsely and shortly velutinous above, long and densely so below, with 3-5 oblique veins more prominent below, often conduplicate and with an apiculate recurved tip, the terminal leaflet greater than the laterals borne on the distal third of the rhachis; stipules narrow-triangular to subulate, 3-5 mm long, leathery, sericeous.

Flowers 5-7 mm long, 1 or 2 axillary or several on an axillary 5-20 cm long rusty-velutinous peduncle, widely spaced in pairs or single, the rhachis often lengthening in fruit; bract linear, acuminate, to 4 mm long, sericeous; pedicel c. 1 mm long, densely sericeous; calyx campanulate, 5-6 mm long, rusty-velutinous, with subequal lanceolate teeth longer than the tube, the upper 2 partly united; petals pink to purple, drying yellow-brown; standard ovate-orbicular, c. 7 x 6 mm, on a claw c. 1 mm, white, tomentose on the back, protruding for one-third of its length from the calyx, usually conduplicate; wings obovate-oblong, shorter than the standard; keel semicircular in outline, shorter than the wings, glabrous.

Pod linear, 25-35 X 3-4 mm, first straight then turning up slightly at the apex, appressed-pubescent, brown, 9-10-seeded; seed subglobular, 2-2.5 mm, yellowish, mottled brown.

Image source: fig. 303B in J.P. Jessop and H.R. Toelken Ed. 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:    W.Aust.; N.T.; ?Qld; restricted to the north of Australia. Conservation status: native Flowering time: July — Sept.

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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