Swainsona burkei

Swainsona burkei is a prostrate or perennial subshrub that typically grows to a height of with many slender stems arising from its base. Its leaves are imparipinnate, long with stipules long at the base. There are 5 to 11 oblong to narrowly leaflets with the narrower end towards the base, mostly and wide. The flowers are arranged in racemes long of 5 to 10, each flower on a pedicel wide. The sepals are joined at the base, forming a tube about long, the sepal lobes often three or more longer than the sepal tube. The petals are purple, occasionally pink or white, the standard petal long, the wings long, and the keel long. The fruit is a more or less oblong pod long and wide with the remains of the style long. ==Taxonomy and naming==

Swainsona burkei was first formally described in 1864 by George Bentham in Flora Australiensis from an unpublished description of Ferdinand von Mueller. Bentham's description was published in his Flora Australiensis. ==Distribution and habitat==

This species of swainsona grows in grassland and woodland in the central parts of the Northern Territory and in western Queensland. == References ==