Swainsona vestita

Swainsona vestita is an erect or ascending perennial plant that typically grows to a height of up to about , and has many strongly ridged stems. Its leaves are imparipinnate, about long with about 7 narrowly lance-shaped leaflets, the side leaflets mostly long, wide and hairy. There is a stipule mostly about long at the base of the petiole. The flowers are arranged in racemes long with 5 to 20 flowers on a peduncle wide, each flower about long on a hairy pedicel about long. The sepals are joined at the base, forming a tube long, the sepal lobes about as slightly longer than the tube. The petals are purple, the standard petal long and wide, the wings long, and the keel about long and about deep. ==Taxonomy and naming==

Swainsona vestita was first formally described in 1993 by Joy Thompson in the journal Telopea from specimens collected west of Coober Pedy in 1980. The specific epithet (vestita) means "clothed", and refers to the "long, conspicuous hairs". ==Distribution and habitat==

This species of pea grows on open, stony plains with shrubs and grasses in a small area of central-northern South Australia. ==References==