Swainsona extrajacens
Swainsona extrajacens is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to central Australia. It is an erect, annual plant with imparipinnate leaves with 9 to 21 linear, egg-shaped leaflets, and racemes of purple flowers in racemes of 5 to 10.
Description
Swainsona extrajacens is an erect, apparently annual, with one to several stems mostly wide, that typically grows to high. The leaves are imparipinnate, long with 9 to 25 linear, egg-shaped leaflets mostly long and wide with narrowly lance-shaped stipules about long at the base of the petioles. The flowers are purple, arranged in racemes of 5 to about 10 on a peduncle wide with broadly lance-shaped bracts about long at the base. The sepals are joined at the base, forming a tube about long with lobes shorter than the tube. The standard petal is long and wide, the wings long and the keel long and about deep.
Taxonomy and naming
Swainsona extrajacens was first formally described in 1990 by Joy Thompson in the journal Telopea, from specimens collected on the far north-western plains of New South Wales in 1974. The specific epithet means "remote from populated areas".
Distribution
This species of pea grows in clay-loam floodplain in the north-western Corner of New South Wales and the north-eastern corner of South Australia.