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Slender darling-pea

Swainsona murrayana

Also called Murray Swainson-pea, Slender Swainson, Murray Swainsona, Slender Swainsona

Slender darling-pea
Photo: Alexander N. Schmidt-Lebuhn, CC BY 3.0 au
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Perennial
Native range
E. & SE. Australia
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Swainsona murrayana, commonly known as slender Darling-pea or slender Darling pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern mainland Australia. It is a prostrate, low-growing or erect perennial herb, with imparipinnate leaves with 3 to 11 linear to elliptic leaflets and racemes of 3 to 11 pink or purple flowers.

Where it grows

Slender Darling-pea is usually found in seasonally wet areas and near lakes and is found on the western slopes and plains of New South Wales, in Northern and western Victoria and southern Queensland with an outlier in South Australia.

Other Swainsona plants

Swainsona acuticarinata · Swainsona adenophylla · Swainsona affinis · Swainsona beasleyana · Southern Swainson Pea · Slender Swainson Pea · Swainsona bracteata · Swainsona burkei · Woolly Darling Pea · Swainsona cadellii · Swainsona calcicola · Swainsona campestris

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Swainsona murrayana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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