Ilparpa Claypans FloraAnnual Yellowtop (Senecio gregorii) Apple Bush (Pterocaulon sphacelatum) Buffel Grass (Cenchrus ciliaris) Button grass (Dactyloctenium radulans) Centipeda crateriformis Cyperus sp Goatshead Burr (Sclerolaena bicornis) Golden Everlasting (Xerochrysum bracteatum) Invisible Plant (Siemssenia capillaris) Longtails (Ptilotus polystachyus) Nardoo (Marsilea drummondii) Pink Everlasting (Schoenia cassiniana) Polycarpaea brevifolia Red Pussytail (Ptilotus polystachyus) Schenkia australis Small-Leaf Swainson-Pea (Swainsona microphylla) Tiny Purslane (Calandrinia pumila) Tiny Purslane (White form) Variable Daisy (Brachyscome ciliaris) Wahlenbergia capillaris Yellow Billybutton (Calocephalus platycephalus)
Known as the Small-Leaf Swainson-Pea (Swainsona microphylla), is a prostrate perennial, that grow up to 60 cm in height. The stems are sparsely to densely pubescent (short downy/soft hair) with appressed to spreading basifixed hairs.
The leaves are between 5-15 cm long; and made up of leaflets (usually 21-41) about 0.1 to 1.5 cm long and 1 to 4.5 mm wide. the leaflets are sparsely hairy, with a notch at the end of the leaflets (also have been documented as straight point at the end of the leaflet).
The pea-shaped flowers vary from purple, blue, pink or white, with five petals, two almost joined together. The flowers are in racemes of about 10-30 flowers, with the stalks arising from the bases of the leaves.
The flower seed pods are globose (globe shape to spherical) to broad-oblong.
- Scientific Classification
- Kingdom: Plantae
- Phylum: Charophyta
- Class: Equisetopsida
- Subclass: Magnoliidae
- Superorder: Rosanae
- Order: Fabales
- Family: Fabaceae
- Genus: Swainsona
- Species: Swainsona microphylla
Footnote & References
- Swainsona microphylla, Alice Springs Field Naturalists Club, https://www.facebook.com/groups/alicefieldnats
- Swainsona microphylla, eFloraSA, http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/cgi-bin/speciesfacts_display.cgi?genus=Swainsona&species=microphylla
- Swainsona microphylla, Small-Leaf Swainson-Pea, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://id.biodiversity.org.au/node/apni/2898507
Ilparpa Claypans FloraAnnual Yellowtop (Senecio gregorii) Apple Bush (Pterocaulon sphacelatum) Buffel Grass (Cenchrus ciliaris) Button grass (Dactyloctenium radulans) Centipeda crateriformis Cyperus sp Goatshead Burr (Sclerolaena bicornis) Golden Everlasting (Xerochrysum bracteatum) Invisible Plant (Siemssenia capillaris) Longtails (Ptilotus polystachyus) Nardoo (Marsilea drummondii) Pink Everlasting (Schoenia cassiniana) Polycarpaea brevifolia Red Pussytail (Ptilotus polystachyus) Schenkia australis Small-Leaf Swainson-Pea (Swainsona microphylla) Tiny Purslane (Calandrinia pumila) Tiny Purslane (White form) Variable Daisy (Brachyscome ciliaris) Wahlenbergia capillaris Yellow Billybutton (Calocephalus platycephalus)
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