Swainsona procumbens
(F.Muell.) F.Muell. Broughton PeaSpreading or ascending perennial herb, to 50 cm tall; stems either glabrous or sparsely pubescent with minute appressed basifixed or subbasifixed hairs. Leaves mostly 5–15 cm long; leaflets 15–25, linear to obovate, 5–30 mm long, 1–7 mm wide, apices usually obtuse or retuse, sometimes mucronate, glabrous above, glabrous or pubescent below; stipules 2–7 mm long, often toothed. Racemes mostly 2–12-flowered; flowers 10–20 mm long; calyx more or less glabrous, upper teeth usually shorter than tube, lower teeth often longer; petals pinkish, mauve or purplish, often turning blue; standard 12–18 mm long, 15–25 mm wide, ovate-elliptic to suborbicular, clawed; keel c. 12–15 mm long, crescent-shaped, beak upcurved, twisted into a complete spiral, tip yellow; style tip incurved or inflexed, with few or no hairs below. Pod narrow-ellipsoid to obloid, mostly 20–40 mm long, 5–10 mm wide, fusiform, glabrous or sparsely pubescent, stipe to c. 7 mm long; seeds c. 20, cordate to reniform, c. 2.5 mm long, brown. Flowers Aug.–Nov.
LoM, MuM, Wim, VVP, VRiv, RobP, MuF, OtP, Gold, CVU, GGr, DunT, NIS. Also SA, Qld, NSW. Scattered throughout much of inland Victoria where usually found in seasonally inundated clay soil depressions.
Jeanes, J.A. (1996). Fabaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 663–829. Inkata Press, Melbourne.