Swainsona parviflora
Swainsona parviflora is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the eastern Australia. It is a low-lying perennial with imparipinnate leaves with 5 to 11 narrowly elliptic to narrowly lance-shaped or oblong leaflets, and racemes of 3 to 10 purple flowers.
Description
Swainsona parviflora is a low-lying perennial plant with a few slender, hairy stems. The leaves are imparipinnate, mostly less than long with 5 to 11 narrowly elliptic to narrowly lance-shaped or oblong leaflets, the side leaflets mostly long and wide with stipules long at the base of the petioles. The flowers are purple, long, arranged in racemes of 3 to 11, long, on a peduncle long. The sepals are joined at the base to form a tube long, with lobes equal to or slightly longer than the tube. The standard petal is long and wide, the wings long and the keel long and deep.
Taxonomy and naming
Swainsona parviflora was first formally described in 1864 by George Bentham in his Flora Australiensis from specimens collected near Wide Bay by John Carne Bidwill. The specific epithet means "small-flowered".
Distribution
This species of swainsona grows in well-watered grassland on the Northern Tablelands, North West Slopes and plains of New South Wales and in south-eastern Queensland.