Common name: French Serradella
Ornithopus sativus Brot. APNI* 
Description: Ascending to prostrate herb to 50 cm high, pubescent; stems usually branched.
Leaves with 19–35 leaflets, lanceolate to elliptic, 4–13 mm long, 3–6 mm wide, apex obtuse and often minutely mucronate, pubescent on both surfaces; stipules c. 2 mm long.
Umbel 2–5-flowered; peduncle 25–55 mm long; bracts leafy, pinnate. Calyx 4–6 mm long, hairy, teeth ± equal. Corolla pink to white, c. 7 mm long.
Pod compressed 12–25 mm long, constricted between seeds, beak c. 2 mm long; articles 3–7; seeds ovoid, c. 1 mm long.
Flowering: early spring.
Distribution and occurrence: Only one old record from Upper Copmanhurst. Native of Spain & Portugal.
NSW subdivisions: *NC, *CWS
Other Australian states: *Vic. *W.A.
Text by C. Gardner
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 2 (1991)
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