Oxytes brachypoda

Large Tick-trefoil at Cook, ACT

Oxytes brachypoda at Cook, ACT - 7 Apr 2020 03:11 PM
Oxytes brachypoda at Cook, ACT - 7 Apr 2020 03:11 PM
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Oxytes brachypoda 13 Apr 2020 MichaelMulvaney
Oxytes brachypoda 13 Apr 2020 pinnaCLE

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BettyDonWood wrote:
   13 Apr 2020
I suppose it has to be. Though there is something very wrong with how the flowers are opening. The flowers look more like Polygala. Apart from there being no species of feral Polygala in the ACT, they have simple leaves, not trifoliate.

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Additional information

  • True In flower
  • 30cm to 1 metre Plant height

Species information

  • Oxytes brachypoda Scientific name
  • Large Tick-trefoil Common name
  • Not Sensitive
  • Local native
  • Non-invasive or negligible
  • Up to 812m Recorded at altitude
  • 95 images trained Machine learning
  • In flower
  • Synonyms

    Desmodium brachypodum

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