Common name: native derris, fish poison vine
Derris involuta (Sprague) Sprague APNI*
Description: Tall woody climber.
Leaves usually 10–15 cm long; leaflets mostly 9–13, ovate to elliptic, 2.5–7 cm long, 15–35 mm wide, apex obtuse or shortly pointed, margins entire, upper surface glabrous, lower surface sparsely rusty-hairy; petiole 3–6 cm long; lateral petiolules 2–3 mm long.
Racemes axillary, 10–25 cm long; pedicels c. 5 mm long. Corolla 10–12 mm long, white and purple.
Pod 3–7 cm long, 10–12 mm wide, wing on upper suture c. 2 mm wide; seeds 1–4.
Flowering: spring–summer.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in warmer rainforest, north from Wingham.
NSW subdivisions: NC
Other Australian states: Qld
Text by G. J. Harden Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 2 (1991)
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