102 FABACEAE 
Widespread across tropical Australia. In disturbed 
areas and open habitats. 
*S. scabra Vogel 
Annual or short lived perennial to | m high. 
Vegetative parts pubescent throughout with soft patent 
hairs, sparse glandular based hairs and stiff bristles. 
Stipules to 13 mm long. Rachis to basal leaflets c. 5 
mm, 6.5-8 mm overall; lJeaflets elliptic or 
oblanceolate, 9-17 mm long, 3.5-8 mm wide, L/W 
2.1-3.4, patchy red-resinous below. Flowers 9-11 mm 
long. Pod 1(2)-articled, 2.5-3.5 mm long, sericeous 
or hirsute, stylar hook 1.5-2 mm long. Flowering and 
fruiting: Feb - July. Fig. 29 
In WA, NT, Qld; in the NT known from Groote 
Stylosanthes 
Eylandt and Bullita. Grows along roadsides and in 
disturbed areas. 
*S. viscosa Sw. 
Viscid perennial to 0.8 m high. Vegetative parts 
densely hairy with glandular based and short simple 
hairs. Stipules to 10 mm long. Rachis to basal leaflets 
3-8 mm, 4-10 mm overall; leaflets elliptic or 
oblanceolate, 5-12 mm long, 2-5 mm wide, L/W 2- 
2.7, patchy red-resinous below. Flowers 5-8.5 mm 
long. Pod 1-articled, c. 2 mm long, white-papillose; 
stylar hook minute. Flowering and fruiting: Jan - May. 
Fig. 29 
In Australia known from the NT and Qld. 
Uncommon in the DR in disturbed areas. 
TEMPLETONIA R.Br. 
An endemic Australian genus of c. 16 species represented in all mainland states; 2 in the NT, 1 in the 
Top End. 
T. hookeri (FMuell.) Benth. 
Evergreen broom-like shrub to 3 m. Stems and 
foliage often yellow-green, indumentum (including 
calyx) usually sparse, of adpressed simple white 
minute hairs with tufts of reddish short glandular or 
resinous hairs in leaf axils. Stipules persistent, minute. 
Leaves 1-foliolate or pinnate with | or 2 pairs of 
leaflets or appearing digitately 3-foliolate through the 
shortening of the last internode of the rachis; stipels 
minute, persistent; rachis 22-70 mm long; leaflets 
similar to rachis, filiform, 10-60 mm long, apex a 
curved mucro. Flowers solitary in axils; peduncles 
24-45 mm long. Pedicels 3-4 mm long; bracteoles 
at base of pedicels, persistent. Calyx 11-16 mm long; 
unequally 4-lobed, lobes 2-3 times longer than tube, 
upper lobe longer and narrower. Corolla yellow, 
glabrous; petals clawed; standard elliptic, 14-18 mm 
long, emarginate; wings and keel petals lobed at base; 
wings lamellate; keel petals adnate in upper half. 
Stamens 10, dimorphic, in an open sided sheath; 
anthers alternately basifixed and dorsifixed just above 
base, all versatile. Ovary stipitate, glabrous; ovules 
c. 4; style glabrous; stigma terminal, minute. Pod 
stipitate, olivaceous or black, flattened, oblong to 
elliptic, 25-35 mm long, 10-11 mm wide with a mealy 
indumentum inside between the seeds, apex caudate. 
Seeds 2-5, transverse in pod, brown, flattened- 
obovoid, c. 6 mm long, 4.5 mm wide; hilum towards 
one end; caruncle prominent. Flowering and fruiting: 
all months. Fig. 29 
Widespread across northern Australia north of 
21° 30' S; not recorded from the DR. Usually on 
sandstone or quartzite in open habitats. The wood is 
used by Aborigines to make woomeras (Russell- 
Smith, 1985). 
TEPHROSIA Pers. 
Evergreen shrubs or herbs, sometimes annual or short lived. Vegetative parts with a sparse to dense 
indumentum of basifixed hairs. Stipules usually persistent, stipels usually absent. Leaves usually imparipinnate, 
less commonly -1-foliolate or 3-foliolate; leaflets frequently with secondary veins straight (craspedodromous) 
or curving slightly upwards to the margin (eucamptodromous), the secondary and intersecondary veins numerous 
and_ parallel, the latter sometimes obscure, less often with secondary veins arching submarginally to the vein 
above (brochidodromous) and then with reticulate tertiary venation; often punctulate and usually glabrous 
