Swainsona swainsonioides

Spreading, ascending perennial herb or sub-shrub to 1 m tall; stems with a sparse to dense cover of spreading or antrorsely curved, basifixed, tuberculate hairs c. 0.5 mm long. Leaves 3–12 cm long; leaflets 11–21, broadly or narrowly obovate or elliptic, sometimes lanceolate, leaflets 5–20 mm long, mostly 4–6 mm wide, apices acute or obtuse, rarely retuse, with a small recurved point, upper surface usually glabrous, lower surface pubescent; stipules to 15 mm long, oblique. Racemes mostly 6–15-flowered; flowers usually 8–15 mm long; calyx virtually glabrous, teeth longer than tube; petals purple; standard 6–16 mm long, 9–22 mm wide, elliptic, shortly clawed; keel 8–12 mm long, apex long, slender, acute, upcurved then recurved, strongly twisted, tip blue; style tip incurved or inflexed, with few or no hairs below. Pod ellipsoid to obloid, 15–35 mm long, 5–8 mm wide, inflated, curved, shortly pubescent, stipe minute; seeds to c. 20, obliquely cordiform, c. 2.5 mm long, brown. Flowers mainly Aug.–Nov.