Erect or ascending perennial herb to c. 80 cm tall; branches virtually glabrous. Leaves imparipinnate; leaflets usually 11–27, oblong to elliptic, mostly 10–20 mm long, 2–7 mm wide, terminal leaflet largest, glabrous, entire, apices obtuse to emarginate, mucronate, midvein prominent; stipules linear, 1–5 mm long, membranous. Inflorescences mostly 10–16-flowered; peduncles mostly 4–7 cm long. Pedicels c. 3–4 mm long; calyx c. 2 mm long, virtually glabrous, teeth shorter than calyx tube; corolla 8–15 mm long; standard pink-purple; wings whitish; keel whitish with a purple tip. Pod 12–50 mm long, c. 1.5 mm wide, 4-angled, beak filiform, 2–5 mm long, articles 3–9, 5–8 mm long; seeds ovoid, c. 3 mm long, brown. Flowers mainly Nov.–Feb.
GipP. Also naturalised SA, Qld, NSW, ACT, Tas. A fodder plant that has become established on the Mornington Peninsula between Rye and Sorrento.
Source:
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.
