Common name: Dalrymple Vigna
Vigna luteola (Jacq.) Benth. APNI* 
Description: Climbing or prostrate perennial, often with adventitious roots; stems to c. 2 m long, with appressed or spreading hairs or glabrescent.
Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets ovate to lanceolate or elliptic, 2.5–10 cm long, 4–50 mm wide, apex acute to acuminate, sparsely hairy; petiole 2–8 cm long; stipules ovate to lanceolate, c. 3 mm long.
Racemes 2–11-flowered; peduncle 5–40 cm long. Calyx tube 4–8 mm long, teeth ± equal to tube, upper 2 united. Corolla yellow or greenish 12–25 mm long; keel acute, curved and broad.
Pods recurved along rachis, terete, 4–8 cm long, glabrous to appressed-pubescent; seeds mostly 6–9.
Flowering: almost all year.
Distribution and occurrence: Coastal, chiefly in damp areas; north from the lower Macleay Valley.
NSW subdivisions: NC, NWS
Other Australian states: Qld N.T.
Text by C. Gardner & T. A. James
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 2 (1991)
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