Swainsona murrayana

Erect, ascending or prostrate perennial herb, to 25 cm tall; stems densely pubescent with appressed medifixed hairs. Leaves mostly 5–10 cm long; leaflets 3–11, linear-lanceolate to elliptic, lateral leaflets 5–30 mm long, 1–2 mm wide, terminal leaflet usually conspicuously longer than laterals, apices narrowly acute with a recurved point, both surfaces sparsely pubescent to virtually glabrous; stipules triangular to linear, c. 2–7 mm long, sometimes broadly toothed. Racemes mostly 3–11-flowered; flowers c. 10 mm long; calyx with base spirally twisted, dark pubescent, teeth shorter than tube; petals pink or purple; standard c. 10 mm long, 7–8 mm wide, often asymmetric, clawed; keel 7–9 mm long, obtuse, tip beak-like, strongly twisted; style tip stout, incurved. Pod narrow-ellipsoid, mostly 20–65 mm long, 4–7 mm wide, inflated, sparsely pubescent, stipe c. 0.5 mm long; seeds to c. 20, cordate-reniform, c. 2 mm long, dark brown. Flowers Aug.–Nov.