82 FABACEAE 
F. trifoliastrum Domin 
Maughania (“Moghania’’) trifoliastrum (Domin) H.W.Li 
Prostrate trailing perennial herb with annual stems. 
Stems tomentose with simple crisped hairs, often also 
with glandular based hairs and vesicular glands. 
Stipules persistent, partly connate on one margin, 5- 
9 mm long. Leaf rachis 5-40 mm long; leaflets 
obovate, broadly cuneate, suborbicular or elliptic, 14- 
49 mm long, 10-44 mm wide, L/W 0.9-1.8, strongly 
3-nerved at base, with vesicular glands on both 
surfaces or only below, otherwise glabrate with simple 
hairs, base mostly cuneate, apex rounded, truncate or 
emarginate, mucronate. Inflorescence a few to many- 
flowered axillary panicle to 100 mm long; rachis, 
pedicels and calyces densely covered with glandular 
based and simple hairs, vesicular glands on calyx; 
bracts persistent, 2-3 mm long. Calyx 3.5-5 mm long; 
lobes: attenuate, c. 1.5 times as long as tube. Corolla 
red to purple; standard c. 7 mm long; wings obscurely 
lamellate; keel with a slightly twisted beak. Pod pale 
brown, 9.5-12 mm long, 5.5-7 mm wide, thinly hairy 
with simple and glandular based hairs and vesicular 
glands. Flowering and fruiting: Aug - Apr. Fig. 24 
Endemic to north west Australia, in the DR known 
from Tipperary - Litchfield area with | collection from 
near Katherine. In savanna on slightly clayey soils. 
Flemingia 
F. ‘Rum Jungle’ 
Evergreen shrub to 1.5 m high. Vegetative parts 
sericeous, with scattered minute black vesicular 
glands on leaf blade and rachis. Stipules caducous. 
Leaf rachis 9-40 mm long, ridged or narrowly 
winged; leaflets elliptic, lanceolate or narrowly 
elliptic, 44-115 mm long, 18-54 mm wide, L/W 1.8- 
:3.2, base rounded or cuneate, apex usually acute. 
Inflorescence of 1-4 dense axillary racemes to 100 
mm long; stems, pedicels and calyces densely 
sericeous, with black vesicular glands and rarely 
yellow glandular based hairs; bracts 5-11 mm long. 
Pedicels 2-5 mm long. Calyx 9-15 mm long; lobes 
4-7 times as long as tube. Corolla red, pink or 
purplish; standard 7-10 mm long; wings lamellate; 
keel petals pouched. Pod brown, 9-10 mm long, 4-5 
mm wide, densely and finely tomentose with black 
glands and rarely with yellow glandular based hairs. 
Seed + black, c. 3 mm diam. Flowering and fruiting: 
most months. Not illustrated. 
Apparently endemic to the NT, and closely 
related to F. macrophylla (Willd.) Merr. and 
F. parviflora. Relatively common in the DR. Often 
associated with streams in rocky habitats and 
margins of rainforest. 
GALACTIA P.Browne 
Perennial-rooted shrubs and vines with annual aerial parts. Indumentum of simple hairs. Stipules persistent. 
Leaves simple, 1-foliolate or pinnately 3-5-foliolate; stipels persistent, filiform. Inflorescence of axillary 
racemes or rarely terminal panicles, the flowers 1-several on spaced, swollen nodes; bracts caducous. Bracteoles 
at base of calyx, persistent, narrowly. triangular. Calyx 4-lobed. Corolla glabrous; standard shortly clawed, 
reflexed, obovate, auricles small, emarginate; keel and wing petals clawed; wings lamellate, lobes slightly 
pouched; keel petals joined in upper third, lobes pouched. Stamens 9+1; upper stamen shortly adnate to base 
of sheath, thickened, + geniculate; filaments alternately long and short; anthers uniform, dorsifixed, versatile. 
Ovary hirsute; ovules numerous; style incurved, glabrous in upper part; stigma minute. Pod dehiscent, brown, 
linear-oblong, slightly curved or sigmoid. Seeds + carunculate. 
A pantropical genus of about 50 species; in Australia about 4 species, all in the DR. 
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1. Shrubs, stems erect or decumbent 
Vegetative parts glabrate; stems to 2 m high............... 
Vegetative parts sericeous; stems <1.5 m high 
3. Leaf rachis to basal leaflets <5 mm long.........ceesee 
3. Leaf rachis to basal leaflets >15 mm long 
G. tenuiflora 
2 
G. megalophylla 
3 
G. muelleri 
G. ‘Litchfield’ 
