Swainsona parviflora explained

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.[1] [2]

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.[3] [4] The specific epithet (parviflora) means "small-flowered".[5]

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.

Notes and References

  1. Thonpson . Joy . A revision of the genus Swainsona (Fabaceae). . Telopea . 1993 . 5 . 3 . 502–503 . 25 April 2024.
  2. Web site: Thompon . Joy . James . Teresa A. . Swainsona parviflora . Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney . 25 April 2024.
  3. Web site: Swainsona parviflora . Australian Plant Name Index . 25 April 2024.
  4. Book: Bentham . George . Flora Australiensis . 1864 . Lovell Reeve & Co. . London . 223 . 25 April 2024.
  5. Book: Sharr . Francis Aubi . George . Alex . Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings . 2019 . Four Gables Press . Kardinya, WA . 9780958034180 . 271 . 3rd.