Swainsona fissimontana

Swainsona fissimontana is a compact, erect or upright perennial herb, that typically grows to a height of up to and has densely softly-hairy stems. The leaves are imparipinnate, mostly long with 7 to 13 narrowly elliptic to elliptic leaflets, the leaflets long and wide with linear stipules long at the base of the petioles. The flowers are pink to dark purplish, arranged in racemes of 3 to 11 on a peduncle long with egg-shaped bracts long at the base. Each flower is long on a pedicel about long, the sepals are joined at the base to form a rounded tube about long with tapering lobes shorter than the tube. The standard petal is about long and wide, the wings long and the keel long. Flowering usually occurs from August to December, and the fruit is an elliptic pod long with the remains of the style about long. ==Taxonomy and naming==

Swainsona fissimontana was first formally described in 1927 by John McConnell Black in the Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia, from specimens collected by Albert Morris north of Broken Hill. The specific epithet (fissimontana) means Broken Hill. ==Distribution==

This species of pea grows in stony or rocky places on plains or hillsides from far western New South Wales to Lake Eyre, the Flinders Ranges and south-eastern regions of South Australia. ==References==