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Neonotonia wightii, Fam. Fabaceae


Vigorous perennial twinning vine, often with woody base. Stems to several metres long, usually densely covered in rusty velvety downward pointed hairs. Previously Notonia wightii.

Weed Category: Other invasive plants
Invasive plants that are not prohibited or restricted invasive plants, but are known to spread readily and cause negative impacts, within the region.
Weed:
Form or habit: Vine (Climbing, Twining or groundcover)
Family: Fabaceae
Leaf: Compound Alternate
Compound, alternate pinnate with 3 ovate to elliptic leaflets, 13-150 x 8-125mm, glabrous to densely velvety hairy on both surfaces; stalk 20-120mm long. Stipules persistent, 1-5mm long.
Flower conspicuous: Conspicuous
Flower colour:

White, Mauve

Flower description: Pea-shaped, usually white, occasionally mauve, about 10mm long; borne in clusters of 2-7 along axillary racemes, 20-180mm long.
Fruit conspicuous: Conspicuous
Fruit colour:

Black, Brown

Fruit: Dry
Fruit description: Dark brown black, pods, glabrous to densely velvety hairy, 15-35 x 2.5-5mm, and constricted between the 2-6 seeds. Seeds tan flattened and almost rectangular, 2-4 x 1.5-3mm.
Habitat:
Distribution
Food source for:
Toxicity:
Origin: India, Malaysia, Indonesia and tropical Africa
Notes: Introduced as a valuable pasture legume now naturalised and thriving in many areas of coastal and sub-coastal Queensland. Forms a dense tangled mass, smothering vegetation. Environmental weed.
Information sources: Mackay Regional Pest Management Group (2018) Weeds of the Mackay Whitsunday Region Second Edition.

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