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Kennedia glabrata
Kennedia glabrata, commonly known as Northcliffe kennedia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a prostrate shrub or creeper with trifoliate leaves and orange-pink to red flowers with a yellow centre.
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Description
Kennedia glabrata is a prostrate shrub or creeper with hairy stems. The leaves are trifoliate, 20–105 mm (0.79–4.13 in) long with stipules 2–5 mm (0.079–0.197 in) long at the base, the leaflets with wavy edges. The flowers are arranged in groups on an erect flower stalk up to 150 mm (5.9 in) long, each flower on a glabrous pedicel about 5 mm (0.20 in) long. The five sepals are glabrous and 5.0–6.2 mm (0.20–0.24 in) long. The standard petal is orange-pink to red with a yellow centre and 12–13 mm (0.47–0.51 in) long, the wings red and about 9 mm (0.35 in) long and the keel red and about 10 mm (0.39 in) long. Flowering occurs from August to November and the fruit is a flattened pod 15–30 mm (0.59–1.18 in) long.
Range & habitat
Northcliffe kennedia grows in shallow pockets of soil on granite outcrops from Northcliffe to near Esperance.
Wikipedia: “Distribution and habitat”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1241279.