Common name: Large Tick-trefoil
Oxytes brachypoda (A.Gray) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi APNI* Synonyms: Desmodium brachypodum A.Gray APNI*
Description: Erect or climbing perennial herb, to 60 cm high; stems with short, spreading, hooked hairs.
Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets ovate to elliptic, 1.5–7 cm long, 7–40 mm wide, apex obtuse to acute, upper surface ± glabrous, lower surface with minute, hooked hairs; petiole 20–55 mm long; stipules 4–8 mm long.
Racemes 15–40 cm long, 8–20-flowered; pedicels 1–2 mm long. Flowers c. 5 mm long, mauve to red or tan.
Pod 20–40 mm long, densely covered with minute, hooked hairs; articles 3–8, each 4–5 mm long.
Flowering: spring–autumn.
Distribution and occurrence: Common and widespread in sclerophyll forest.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, SC, NT, CT, ST, NWS, CWS, NWP, SWP
Other Australian states: N.T. S.A. Qld
Text by C. Gardner & T. A. James; name updated by R.L. Barrett, Sept. 2019
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 2 (1991)
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