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Swainsona unifoliolata is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Central Australia. It is an erect or ascending perennial plant, usually with one leaflet and racemes of about 4 to 15 purple flowers.
This species of pea grows on gypsum or limestone on salt flats and the edges of salt lakes in the Avon Wheatbelt, Central Ranges, Gibson Desert, Great Sandy Desert, Great Victoria Desert, Little Sandy Desert, Murchison, Pilbara and Tanami bioregions of inland Western Australia, South Australia, and Finke, Great Sandy Desert, MacDonnell Ranges, Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields and Tanami bioregions of southern 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 unifoliolata 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.
