Indigofera chamaeclada subsp. pubens Peter G.Wilson & Rowe

Scientific Description

Twining or climbing plants, herb. Stems terete, not spiny, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, compound, alternate, not continuous with stem, 15-25 mm long, hairy, with simple hairs, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent, leaflets 7-9, pinnately arranged, terminal leaflet present, stalked; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present and persistent to older leaves, 2-2.5 mm long, without glands, ribless. Calyx 3.5-4 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 5-6.5 mm long, multicoloured, mostly pink, red or white, with some pink, red or white spots, streaks or blotches; claws absent; standard 5-6 mm long, hairy at least in part, not auriculate, wings 3.5-4 mm long, not auriculate, keel 5-6.5 mm long, not beaked, not auriculate, hairy at least in part. Stamens ten; anthers 0.5-0.6 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments united in an open sheath with one free stamen, 3-4.5 mm long. Ovary stipitate, hairy or glandular; style 4-5.5 mm long, hairy or glandular towards the base, bearded (with a tuft of hairs at apex), terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), 15-25 mm long, 1.5-3 mm wide, sessile or subsessile, not constricted between the seeds, round in cross-section, hairy, with simple hairs, not beaked. Flowers in June, July, August, September and October. Occurs in the Eremaean Botanical Province, in the Pilbara and Carnarvon IBRA regions.