Family: Fabaceae
Swainsona microphylla ssp. pallescens
Citation:
A. Lee, Contr. N.S.W. natn. Herb. 1, 4:255 (1948).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: Yellow poison-pea.
Description:
Stems sparsely pubescent; leaves 2-6 cm long, with 9-21 usually 11-15 leaflets; leaflets oblong-obcordate, retuse, 4-13 X 1.5-10 mm, commonly 6-9 X 3-5 mm, quite glabrous above, sparsely to rather densely pubescent beneath with short (c. 0.5 mm long) appressed hairs which are also on the petioles and petiolules.
Flowers to 10 mm long, yellow (in S. Aust.) or white, on 5-25 cm long glabrescent peduncles, 30- or more-flowered, flowers distributed evenly nearly from the base of the rhachis, developing from the base; style tip with an extended tapering terminal segment, usually straight (S. Aust. specimens), sometimes slightly inflexed, with short hairs along the back.
Distribution:
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N.T.; Qld; N.S.W.
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Flowering time: Aug.
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Biology:
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Taxonomic notes:
Differs from subsp. affinis in its flower colour and generally in the greater number of leaflets per leaf, and from subsp. glabrescens in the larger and thinner leaflets.
Author:
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