Swainsona phacoides

Prostrate or ascending perennial or ephemeral herb, to 30 cm tall; stems often densely pubescent with asymmetric medifixed hairs; hairs 1–1.5 mm long, appressed or with both ends raised. Leaves mostly 5–10 cm long; leaflets 5–13, narrow- to broad-elliptic, leaflets 5–30 mm long, 1–5 mm wide, apices acute to obtuse or emarginate, both surfaces densely to sparsely pubescent; stipules to c. 5 mm long. Racemes 1–10-flowered; flowers mostly 10–15 mm long; calyx densely pubescent, teeth longer or shorter than tube; petals pale to dark reddish-purple; standard usually 7–14 mm long, 7–14 mm wide, broad-ovate to suborbicular, tapering to base; keel 8–10 mm long, longer than wings, apex acute to obtuse; style tip slender and straight. Pod obovoid to obloid, 10–30 mm long, 4–12 mm wide, inflated, with long, fine spreading tubercle-based hairs; stipe to c. 0.5 mm long; seeds to c. 40, cordate, c. 1.7 mm long, olive-green to brown. Flowers mainly Aug.–Oct.