Common name: Purple Running Pea
Kennedia procurrens Benth. APNI* 
Description: Prostrate or climbing herb; stems 1–2 m long, ± pubescent with brown or white hairs.
Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets broad-ovate or broad-elliptic, 2–5 cm long, 1–3.5 cm wide, upper surface glabrous to ± pubescent, rugose, lower surface ± pubescent; stipules ovate, 4–6 mm long.
Racemes 1–4 cm long, 2–10-flowered; peduncles to 13 cm long; bracts ovate. Calyx 5–6 mm long. Corolla 10–15 mm long, pale red to mauve or violet; standard wide-obovate.
Pod ± cylindrical to compressed, 5–6 cm long, glabrous; seeds c. 5, ovoid.
Flowering: late winter to summer.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows on sandy soils in woodland, chiefly north and west of Coonabarabran.
NSW subdivisions: NWS, NWP
Other Australian states: Qld
Text by C. Gardner & T. A. James
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 2 (1991)
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