Dipogon lignosus
(L.) Verdc. Common DipogonVigorous twiner; stems to 3 m long, slightly compressed. Leaves with petioles to 6 cm long; leaflets ovate to rhombic, 3–9 cm long, 1–7 cm wide, more or less glabrous, lower surface paler than upper; petiolules 1–20 mm long; stipules oblong-lanceolate, to 6 mm long, leafy, white-pubescent, persistent; stipellae linear or filiform, 2–3 mm long. Inflorescence many-flowered, to 25 cm long; bract lanceolate, 1–2 mm long; bracteoles subovate, to 1.5 mm long, inserted just below calyx; pedicel 3–7 mm long, lengthening to 15 mm or more and thickening in fruit. Calyx campanulate, 3–4 mm long, calyx teeth sub-equal, upper 2 and lower 3 slightly united into 2 lips, margins ciliate; corolla 10–15 mm long, pink-purple, rarely white; standard broadly ovate, c. 12 mm across, recurved or conduplicate, with 2 basal calli; wings obovate, auriculate; keel semicircular, incurved, sickle-shaped, beak purple. Pod terete to falcate, 25–50 mm long, 5–10 mm wide, more or less glabrous; seeds ovate, to c. 4.5 mm long, black, hilum white, aril inconspicuous. Flowers mainly Sep.–Jan.
MuM, GleP, VVP, GipP, OtP, WaP, CVU, GGr, DunT, EGL, EGU, WPro, HSF, HNF, OtR, Strz, VAlp. Also naturalised WA, SA, Qld, NSW, Tas. Native to South Africa. Scattered across southern Victoria, mainly on disturbed sandy soils near the coast where it has escaped from cultivation. .
Jeanes, J.A. (1996). Fabaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 663–829. Inkata Press, Melbourne.