- Reference
- Battandier & al., Fl.Algérie 1:267 (1889)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Alien to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Prostrate, twining or scrambling annual, herb, to 1.5 m high. Fl. red-pink-purple, Sep to Nov. Brown sand & loam, red sandy clay, granite, laterite. River foreshores, disturbed sites, gardens.
Scientific Description
Twining or climbing plants. Stems winged, not spiny, glabrous; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, compound, alternate, continuous with stem, 40-90 mm long, hairy, with simple hairs, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent, leaflets 8-12, pinnately arranged, terminal leaflet absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present and persistent to older leaves, 8-9 mm long, without glands, ribless. Bracteoles absent. Corolla multicoloured, mostly pink, red or purple, with some pink, red or purple spots, streaks or blotches. Stamens ten. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), 50-55 mm long, 5-7 mm wide, stipitate or sessile or subsessile, not constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, glabrous, not beaked. Flowers in August and October. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Avon Wheatbelt, Mallee and Swan Coastal Plain IBRA regions.
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Swan Coastal Plain.
- IBRA Subregions
- Katanning, Northern Jarrah Forest, Perth, Western Mallee.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Kondinin, Nedlands, Northam, South Perth, Swan.