Common name: Yellow Serradella
Ornithopus compressus L. APNI* 
Description: Ascending to decumbent herb to 50 cm high, pubescent; stems mostly unbranched.
Leaves with 15–37 leaflets, oblong, elliptic or oblong-lanceolate, 3–8 mm long, 2–4 mm wide, apex acute or obtuse, pubescent on both surfaces; stipules < 1 mm long.
Umbels 2–5-flowered; peduncles 15–37 mm long; bracts leafy, pinnate. Calyx 3–5 mm long, densely hairy, teeth ± equal. Corolla yellow, 5–8 mm long.
Pod compressed 20–50 mm long, curved, slightly constricted between seeds, beak c. 7 mm long; articles 5–8; seeds ovoid, c. 2 mm long.
Flowering: spring–summer.
Distribution and occurrence: Not common, rarely naturalized in the Sydney district. Native of S Eur.
NSW subdivisions: *CC, *NT, *NWS, *CWS
Other Australian states: *Vic. *W.A. *S.A.
Text by C. Gardner
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 2 (1991)
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