Swainsona kingii
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| Swainsona kingii | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Faboideae |
| Genus: | Swainsona |
| Species: | S. kingii |
| Binomial name | |
| Swainsona kingii | |
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Swainsona kingii is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is native to Western Australia and South Australia. It is a prostrate or ascending annual or perennial herb, with imparipinnate leaves with usually 5 egg-shaped leaflets with the narrower end towards the base, and racemes of 1 to 3 pink to purple flowers.
Swainsona kingii is a prostrate or ascending annual or perennial herb, that typically grows to a height of about 15 cm (5.9 in) and has many stems. The leaves are imparipinnate, mostly 15–50 mm (0.59–1.97 in) long with usually 5 egg-shaped leaflets with the narrower end towards the base, 5–12 mm (0.20–0.47 in) long and 2–9 mm (0.079–0.354 in) wide with stipules 5–20 mm (0.20–0.79 in) long at the base of the petioles. The flowers are pink to purple, arranged in racemes of 1 to 3 10–50 mm (0.39–1.97 in) long, on a peduncle up to 0.5 mm (0.020 in) long. The sepals are joined at the base to form a tube 1.5 mm (0.059 in) long, with lobes shorter than the tube. The standard petal is 5–10 mm (0.20–0.39 in) long and almost as wide, the wings 5–9 mm (0.20–0.35 in) long and the keel 5–8 mm (0.20–0.31 in) long and about 2 mm (0.079 in) deep. Flowering occurs from May to October, and the fruit is a narrowly elliptic pod 20–30 mm (0.79–1.18 in) long on a stalk about 1 mm (0.039 in) long, with the remains of the strongly curved style 2–3 mm (0.079–0.118 in) long.[2][3]