Common name: Slender Vetch
Vicia tetrasperma (L.) Schreb. APNI* 
Description: Procumbent to erect or climbing annual herb; stems to 80 cm long, glabrous or with appressed hairs.
Leaves 1–4.5 cm long; leaflets mostly 6–12, linear to narrow-elliptic, 3–25 mm long, 0.5–3.5 mm wide; apex acute or obtuse, mucronate, glabrous or appressed-hairy; stipules 2–3 mm long, entire.
Racemes 1–3-flowered; peduncle about as long as the leaves. Calyx 2–4 mm long. Corolla 5–8 mm long, mostly pale blue; standard longest, reflexed, purple-veined; keel with upturned tip.
Pod oblong, 8–15 mm long, 2.5–4.5 mm wide, slightly constricted between seeds, light brown, glabrescent; seeds 3 or 4, ± globose, c. 2 mm wide.
Flowering: winter–spring.
Distribution and occurrence: Native of S Medit.
NSW subdivisions: *NC, *CC, *SWP, *SC
Other Australian states: *Qld *Vic. *Tas. *W.A. *S.A.
Text by C. Gardner & T. A. James
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 2 (1991)
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