Daviesia 
linear-oblanceolate to narrowly oblanceolate, 40-140 
mm long, 1-8 mm wide, L/W 11-40; venation obscure 
except for main vein. Inflorescence terminal or 
axillary, racemose, to 120 mm long, the flowers well 
spaced; bracts small, persistent. Pedicels 4-10 mm 
long, bracteoles absent. Calyx 4.5-7 mm long; lobes 
5, the 2 upper longer, rounded or blunt, ribbed, 
resinous, especially in fruit, c. 1/3 total length. Corolla 
yellow, glabrous; standard broader than long, clawed, 
reflexed, emarginate, with large calli, 7-9 mm long; 
wings and keel long-clawed; wings lamellate; keel 
FABACEAE 65 
petals pouched, joined towards apex. Stamens 10; 
alternately thick with long basifixed anthers and thin 
with shorter versatile anthers. Ovary 1-2-ovuled, 
glabrous; stigma minute. Pod triangular, stiff, 
sub-woody, brown with a resinous sheen; 11-15 mm 
long, 5-7 mm wide. Seed 1, brown or mottled black 
and red, 4.1-4.5 mm long, 2.5-2.7 mm wide; caruncle 
asymmetric. Flowering and fruiting: most months. 
Fig. 20 
Endemic to the Kimberley and Top End of the NT; 
usually on sandstone or soils derived from sandstone. 
DENDROLOBIUM Benth. 
Perennial subshrubs or herbs with annual above ground parts. Indumentum of short adpressed and minute 
hooked hairs. Stipules persistent. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate, rarely 1-foliolate; stipels persistent; leaflets 
discolorous, dorsiventral, strongly penniveined, undersurface often prominently reticulate. Inflorescence 
axillary, fasciculate; bracts and bracteoles similar, narrow, small. Calyx persistent, 4-lobed, lobes as long as 
tube, acuminate, upper lobe minutely bifid to entire. Standard shortly clawed; wings lamellate. Stamens 9+1, 
upper stamen free or partly connate to sheath; anthers uniform, basifixed. Ovary sessile, densely hirsute; 
ovules 1-5; style hairy towards base; stigma capitate. Seeds longitudinal in pod, reniform, strongly flattened; 
hilum central; ecarunculate. 
A genus of c. 12 species in tropical Asia and tropical Australia. Of the 3 Australian species, 2 occur in the 
NT and DR. This genus is sometimes treated as a subgenus of Desmodium. 
1. Plants erect; basal leaflets >1/2 length of terminal leaflet; 
upper stamen connate to sheath in lower half......... 
D. stipatum 
1. Plants prostrate; basal leaflets <1/2 length of terminal leaflet; 
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D. stipatum S.T.Blake 
An erect multistemmed subshrub to 0.6 m tall, with 
grey-green foliage. Pubescent throughout with 
adpressed white to brown short hairs and minute 
hooked hairs; a globular yellow exudate darkening 
with age on all parts. Stipules 3-4 mm long, acuminate. 
Leaf rachis to basal leaflets 6-18 mm, 10-34 mm 
overall; leaflets elliptic, ovate, obovate or lanceolate, 
veins in 6-11 pairs, undersurface glaucous-papillose, 
base rounded or cuneate, apex emarginate; basal 
leaflets 17-63 mm long, 11-28 mm wide, L/W 1.4- 
2.4, >1/2 length of terminal; terminal leaflet 34-75 
mm long, 17-37 mm wide, L/W 1.6-2.3. Inflorescence 
of up to 11 flowers; bracts caducous, 1-2 mm long. 
Pedicels slender, 6-14 mm long. Calyx 4-6 mm long. 
Corolla pink; standard 9-14 mm long. Upper 
stamen connate to sheath in lower 1/2. Ovules (1)2- 
5. Pod articulated, brown, oblong, falcate, 
flattened, 18-32 mm long, 4-5 mm wide, venation 
reticulate, articles dimidiate, 6-7 mm long, 4-5 mm 
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D. ‘Green Ant Ck’ 
wide. Seeds pale brown, 3.5-5 mm long, 2.3-3 mm 
wide; hilum c. 1 mm long. Flowering: July - Oct; 
fruiting: Oct. Fig. 20 
Endemic to the DR and found in the Batchelor - 
Litchfield - Daly R. area. Grows in E. confertiflora - 
E. foelscheana woodland, often on stony soil. 
D. ‘Green Ant Ck’ 
A prostrate herb. Stems to 1.3 m long, foliage often 
ground hugging. Adpressed to patent white hairs and 
minute hooked hairs on all parts except corolla, upper 
leaf surface often glabrate. Stipules 5-7 mm long, 
striate, acuminate to attenuate. Leaf rachis to basal 
leaflets 9-35 mm, 17-55 mm overall; leaflets ovate, 
orbicular or broadly elliptic, veins in 11-16 pairs, base 
rounded or cordate, apex acute to obtuse; basal leaflets 
25-47 mm long, 15-35 mm wide, L/W 1-1.8, + 
asymmetric, <1/2 length of terminals; terminal leaflet 
63-104 mm long, 35-60 mm wide, L/W 1-1.9. 
Inflorescence of up to 20 flowers in leaf axils, leaves 
