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Leptosema villosum is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the north of the Northern Territory. It is a prostrate or erect shrub or subshrub with winged stems and branches, leaves reduced to narrowly egg-shaped, channelled scales, greenish flowers, and flattened, oblong pods with a small beak.
Leptosema villosum grows in sand over sandstone or laterite in sedgeland, woodland or forest in the Arnhem Coast, Arnhem Plateau Central Arnhem Gulf Coastal Gulf Fall and Uplands and Pine Creek bioregions of the Northern Territory. It occurs in the Kakadu, Limmen and Nitmiluk National Parks.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Leptosema villosum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
