Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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Indigofera australis subsp. australis
Austral indigo, Australian indigo
Fabaceae
Forest, woodland, and rocky areas. Widespread.
Shrub to about 2.5m tall. Young stems hairy, becoming hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 4-10 cm long, compound, with 5-25 leaflets, each 0.4-4 cm long, 3-9 mm wide, entire, usually sparsely hairy above, hairy below, tips blunt, usually with a small straight mucro. Flowers 6-7 mm in diameter, pea-shaped, with five petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, pink to mauve. Standard petal 7-9 mm long. Flower clusters mostly 6-15 cm long, of 5-many flowers. Flowers Sep.–Nov.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNETdescription: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Indigofera~australis (accessed 16 April 2021)
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