Common name: Slender Serradella
Ornithopus pinnatus (Mill.) Druce APNI*
Description: Ascending or prostrate herb to 50 cm high, sparsely pubescent to glabrous.
Leaves with 7–19 leaflets, linear to elliptic or oblanceolate, 5–15 mm long, 2–6 mm wide, apex obtuse, ± glabrous; stipules 1–2 mm long.
Umbels 1–5-flowered; peduncle 15–60 mm long; bracts absent or minute. Calyx c. 5 mm long, glabrous, teeth ± equal. Corolla 6–8 mm long, yellow.
Pod 20–35 mm long, curved, glabrous, slightly constricted between seeds, beak ≤ 5 mm long; articles mostly > 8; seeds ovoid, c. 1 mm long, brown.
Distribution and occurrence: Only one record from Narrabri. Native of W Eur. & Medit.
NSW subdivisions: *NWS, *NWP
Other Australian states: *Vic. *Tas. *W.A.
Text by C. Gardner
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 2 (1991)
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