Swainsona bracteata
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| Swainsona bracteata | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Faboideae |
| Genus: | Swainsona |
| Species: | S. bracteata |
| Binomial name | |
| Swainsona bracteata | |
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Swainsona bracteata is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a perennial herb with imparipinnate leaves usually with 19 to 25 narrowly egg-shaped leaflets, and racemes of about 20 white, pale pink or pale purple flowers.
Swainsona bracteata is a perennial herb, that typically grows to a height about 1 m (3 ft 3 in) with hairy stems. Its leaves are imparipinnate, 5–10 mm (0.20–0.39 in) long with stipules 2–5 mm (0.079–0.197 in) long at the base. There are mostly 19 to 25 narrowly egg-shaped leaflets, the lower leaflets about 15 mm (0.59 in) and 5–17 mm (0.20–0.67 in) wide. The flowers are arranged in racemes 10–20 mm (0.39–0.79 in) long of about 20, each flower 10–20 mm (0.39–0.79 in) long. The sepals are softly-hairy and joined at the base, forming a tube with the sepal lobes about equal to the sepal tube. The petals are white, pale pink or pale purple. The fruit is an elliptic pod usually 40–50 mm (1.6–2.0 in) long with the remains of the style about 4 mm (0.16 in) long.[2]