About
Contact
Links
Electronic Flora of South Australia
Electronic Flora of South Australia
Census of SA Plants, Algae & Fungi
Identification tools
 

Electronic Flora of South Australia infraspecific Fact Sheet

Family: Fabaceae
Swainsona microcalyx ssp. adenophylla

Citation: A. Lee, Contr. N.S.W. natn. Herb. 1, 4:207 (1948).

Synonymy: S. adenophylla J. Black, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 50:284 (1926); S. microcalyx J. Black var. adenophylla (J. Black)J. Black, Fl. S. Aust. 475 (1948).

Common name: None

Description:
Plant appears more compact and more stemmed; leaflets linear, retuse, 5-30 x c. 2 mm, somewhat clavate, usually strongly incurved or folded (in dried specimens); the lobes at the apex thick, with an orbicular yellowish gland between them; the hairs flattened and scale-like, short, appressed; petals usually purple.

image of FSA2_Swainsona_mic_ade.jpg
Image source: fig. 335B in J.P. Jessop and H.R. Toelken Ed. 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:    N.S.W.

Flowering time: June — Sept., and sometimes in summer after good rains.

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available


Disclaimer Copyright Disclaimer Copyright Email Contact:
State Herbarium of South Australia
Government of South Australia Government of South Australia Government of South Australia Department for Environment and Water