Swainsona recta

Swainsona recta is an erect or ascending perennial plant that typically up to a height of with 1 or 2 slender, ribbed stems. Its leaves are imparipinnate, mostly long, with 5 to 13 very narrowly linear leaflets, the side leaflets mostly long and wide. There is a long, narrow stipule, between long at the base of the petiole. The flowers are arranged in racemes long with about 6 to more than 25 flowers on a peduncle long, each flower long on a densely hairy pedicel long. The sepals are joined at the base, forming a tube long, the sepal lobes usually half as long as the tube. The petals are purple, the standard petal about long and wide, the wings long, and the keel about long and deep. Flowering occurs between September and early December, and the fruit is long and wide with the remains of the style about long. ==Taxonomy and naming==

Swainsona recta was first formally described in 1948 by Alma Theodora Lee in Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium, from specimens collected by Marie Henley near Wangaratta. The specific epithet (recta) means "straight". ==Distribution and habitat==

Mountain Swainson-pea grows in grassland and open woodland, often on stony hillsides on the Central and South Western Slopes of New South Wales and in the north and north-east of Victoria. ==Conservation status==

Swainsona recta is listed as "endangered" under the Australian Government Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, and the New South Wales Government Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016, and as "critically endangered" under the Victorian Government Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988. The species is part of the "Saving our Species" program, and an "action plan" has been implemented. ==References==