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Swainsona tanamiensis is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to north-western Australia. It is a prostrate or erect perennial plant with imparipinnate leaves with 5 to 13 broadly egg-shaped to elliptic, or almost round leaflets, and racemes of up to 8 purple flowers.
This species of pea grows in clay or sandy soil on floodplains, and the edges of salt lakes in the Dampierland, Gascoyne, Great Sandy Desert, Pilbara and Tanami bioregions of Western Australia and the Northern Territory.
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 tanamiensis 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.
