- Reference
- Nat.Arr.Brit.Pl. 2:614-615 (1821)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Alien to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Trailing or climbing annual, herb, 0.15-0.8 m high. Fl. white-blue/pink, Jul or Sep to Dec. Grey sand, brown loam, granite, laterite. Rock outcrops, along river banks, floodplains, pastures, gardens, wasteland.
Scientific Description
Twining or climbing plants. Stems terete, not spiny, glabrous; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, compound, alternate, continuous with stem, 20-60 mm long, glabrous, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent, leaflets 12-14, pinnately arranged, terminal leaflet absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present and persistent to older leaves, 4 mm long, without glands, ribless. Pedicel present, 2 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles absent. Calyx 3-3.5 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with glandular hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla multicoloured, mostly pink, purple or white, with some pink, purple or white spots, streaks or blotches. Stamens ten. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), 10-12 mm long, 4-5 mm wide, stipitate or sessile or subsessile, not constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, hairy, with simple hairs, not beaked. Flowers in July, September, October and November. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Warren and Swan Coastal Plain IBRA regions.
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Swan Coastal Plain, Warren.
- IBRA Subregions
- Perth, Southern Jarrah Forest, Warren, Western Mallee.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Albany, Bayswater, Boyup Brook, Bridgetown-Greenbushes, Bunbury, Canning, Cockburn, Denmark, Harvey, Kondinin, Murray, Perth, Plantagenet, Serpentine-Jarrahdale, South Perth, Stirling.