Indigofera australis
Willd. Austral IndigoSpreading shrub to c. 2.5 m tall. Leaves 4–10 cm long; rachis more or less terete, to c. 1 mm wide; leaflets usually 11–25, oblong to elliptic, mostly 10–40 mm long, 5–9 mm wide, obtuse, usually mucronate; stipules lanceolate, to c. 4 mm long. Inflorescences mostly 6–15 cm long; peduncle to c. 2 cm long. Flowers 5-many; pedicels c. 2 mm long; bract triangular, 0.5–1 mm long, brown; calyx 2–2.5 mm long, appressed-hairy, teeth shorter than tube, unequal; corolla mauve, standard suborbicular, c. 6 mm across, short-clawed; wings spathulate; keel c. as long as wings. Pod linear-terete, 25–45 mm long, more or less glabrous; seeds more or less cubic, c. 2 mm long, black. Flowers Sep.–Nov.
Wim, GleP, VVP, VRiv, MuF, GipP, OtP, WaP, Gold, CVU, GGr, DunT, NIS, EGL, EGU, WPro, HSF, HNF, OtR, Strz, MonT, HFE, VAlp. All States except NT. Widespread and common across much of state in a variety of habitats but absent from the north-west.
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.