Swainsona campylantha

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Swainsona campylantha
West of Blackall
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Genus: Swainsona
Species:
S. campylantha
Binomial name
Swainsona campylantha
Synonyms[1]
Habit near Aramac

Swainsona campylantha, commonly known as Gilgai Darling pea,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to inland areas of Australia. It is a low-growing perennial with imparipinnate leaves usually with up to 7 narrowly lance-shaped to narrowly elliptic leaflets, and racemes of 2 to 10 pink to purple flowers.

Swainsona campylantha is a low-growing perennial herb, that typically grows to a height of up to 25 cm (9.8 in) with more or less glabrous, strongly ribbed stems. Its leaves are imparipinnate, mostly 30–60 mm (1.2–2.4 in) long on short petiole with up to 7 narrowly lance-shaped to narrowly elliptic leaflets 5–60 mm (0.20–2.36 in) long and 1–5 mm (0.039–0.197 in) wide. There are stipules 1–15 mm (0.039–0.591 in) long at the base of the petiole. The flowers are arranged in racemes 50–100 mm (2.0–3.9 in) long of 2 to 10 on a peduncle 1.5–3 mm (0.059–0.118 in) long, each flower 7–10 mm (0.28–0.39 in) long. The sepals are joined at the base, forming a tube about 2 mm (0.079 in) long, the sepal lobes about the same length as the tube. The petals are pink to purple, the standard petal 15–25 mm (0.59–0.98 in) long and 10–15 mm (0.39–0.59 in) wide, the wings crescent-shaped and 7–11 mm (0.28–0.43 in) long, and the keel 7–10 mm (0.28–0.39 in) long with a broad, erect, beak-like tip. Flowering depends on the environment, and the fruit is an elliptic or oblong pod mostly 10–30 mm (0.39–1.18 in) long and 6–7 mm (0.24–0.28 in) wide with the remains of the strongly curved style about 6 mm (0.24 in) long.[2][3][4][5][6]

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