Swainsona brachycarpa

Prostrate or ascending perennial herb, to c. 10 cm tall; stems glabrous or tuberculate; tubercules bearing minute appressed or divergent basifixed hairs. Leaves mostly 2–10 cm long; leaflets 9–23, narrow-elliptic to ovate, lateral leaflets 2–12 mm long, usually 1–4 mm wide, apices emarginate, both surfaces virtually glabrous; stipules c. 1 mm long. Racemes, mostly 2–6-flowered; flowers 6–10 mm long; calyx more or less glabrous, teeth shorter than tube; petals white to purplish or dark red; standard c. 10 mm long, 6–12 mm wide, suborbicular, clawed; keel 6–9 mm long, obtuse, retracted or with a short beak; style tip straight, incurved or strongly inflexed, tufted. Pod ellipsoid to crescent-shaped, mostly 15–30 mm long, 4–9 mm wide, inflated, glabrous, stipe 2–3 mm long; seeds to c. 15, reniform to cordate, c. 1.8 mm long, brown. Flowers Nov.–Jan.