Climbing annual herb; stems to c. 3 m long, glabrous, angular, winged. Leaves 2-foliolate; leaflets lanceolate or ovate, 2–8 cm long, 3–20 mm wide, glabrous, apices acute or obtuse, sometimes mucronate; tendrils usually 3 or more; petiole 1.5–3 cm long, winged; stipules lanceolate, semi-sagittate, 12–25 mm long. Flowers usually 1–3 in racemes 5–10 cm long; pedicel to 10 mm long; peduncle 2–8 cm long; bract narrow-triangular, c. 1 mm long; calyx 8–12 mm long, 5-veined, glabrous, teeth more or less equal, shorter than tube; corolla 2–3 cm long, pale pink to purple; standard broad-ovate; wings shorter; keel obtuse; style twisted, not winged. Pod oblong, 6–10 cm long, 8–10 mm wide, compressed, glabrous, reticulate-veined; seeds 6–10, ovoid, c. 7 mm long, smooth, black. Flowers Nov.–Jan.
VVP, GipP, Gold, CVU, NIS, HSF, Strz. Also naturalised WA, SA, Qld, Tas. Native to the Mediterranean region. Known from scattered records throughout southern Victoria.
