Indigofera circinella Baker F.

Prostrate perennial herb, less than 5 cm high, branches to 50 cm long or more, with taproot; young stems ridged or flattened, pale green, pubescent with sparse, appressed, equally biramous hairs plus some multicellular hairs. Leaves pinnate, with (4–) 6 (–7) leaflets; stipules triangular, 1.5–2.5 mm long, with scarious margin and narrow, red-brown, club-shaped multicellular hairs, glabrescent, not spinescent, persistent; petiole 0.5–1 mm long; rachis furrowed; multicellular hairs at the base of the leaflets sparse, inconspicuous, red to brown, club-shaped. Leaflets alternate, stipellae absent; lamina cuneate or obovate, 3–10 mm long, 1.5–3.5 mm wide, upper surface green, glabrous, lower surface green, with sparse, appressed hairs, apex obtuse and mucronate, veins not prominent. Inflorescences 4–10 mm long, shorter than leaves; peduncle 1–2 mm long; bracts ovate, 1 mm long; flowers pink to orange-red; pedicel 0.5–1 mm long. Calyx 2.5–3 mm long; lobes subequal to equal, longer than the length of the tube and covered with moderately dense, white appressed hairs. Standard pink, broadly obovate, 2.5–3 mm long, 2.5–3 mm wide. Wings spathulate, 3 mm long, 0.5–1 mm wide. Keel 2.5–3.5 mm long, 1 mm deep; lateral pockets 0.3–0.5 mm long; apex acute; glabrous or with very occasional hyaline to white hairs at the tip. Staminal tube 2–2.5 mm long, colourless. Ovary densely hairy. Pods deflexed, circinate and somewhat torulose, 15–25 mm long, 1.5–2 mm wide, brown, pubescent; hairs sparse to moderately dense, appressed; apex upturned and shortly beaked with persistent style; endocarp with pale orange spots; seeds 6–14 per fruit.

Disturbed areas and lawns.