Swainsona
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Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderFabales
- FamilyFabaceae
General: that genera such as Oxytropis, Sutherlandia and Swainsona, which
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 294
- With media
- 67
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Collections
- USF, MEL
- Recorded in
- United States, Australia
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Description
- Taxonomy
- Species list
- Distribution
- References
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Swainsona is a genus of about 85 species of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, and is endemic to Australia. Plants in this genus are herbs or subshrubs with imparipinnate leaves and usually purple flowers similar to others in the family.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Swainsona” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.