Desmodium gunnii

Prostrate or ascending herb; stems 15–50 cm long, weak, sometimes rooting at nodes, glabrous or with a few short, glandular, simple hairs. Leaves mostly trifoliolate with petiolules of leaflets more or less equal; leaflets obovate to orbicular, 1–2 cm long, 4–15 mm wide, upper and lower surfaces with sparse soft curved hairs, apices obtuse; petiole 5–35 mm long; stipules 1.5–3 mm long; stipellae to 1.5 mm long. Racemes terminal, to c. 15 cm long, 4–10-flowered; pedicels initially short, lengthening to c. 1 cm as fruit matures. Flowers usually paired, distant; petals 5–6 mm long, usually pink fading to white. Pod 7–20 mm long, constricted between articles from both sides (but usually more strongly from the ventral side), densely covered with minute uncinate hairs; articles 2–6, each 3–5 mm long. Flowers spring–autumn.