Common name: Bladder Senna, Bladder Vetch
Swainsona colutoides F.Muell. APNI* 
Description: Erect annual 1–1.3 m high; stems glabrous.
Leaves mostly 15–20 cm long; leaflets 13–17, obovate, the lower 10–30 mm long, to 15 mm wide, apex obtuse to emarginate, both surfaces glabrous; stipules often ≥ 15 mm long. Racemes c. 15-flowered; flowers 15–20 mm long. Calyx glabrous, teeth shorter than tube. Corolla purple; keel apex ± obtuse and obscurely lipped. Style tip straight or curved with sparse, antrorse hairs. Fruit crescent-shaped, mostly 30–40 mm long, glabrous; style c. 9 mm long; stipe 3–7 mm long. Grows on sandy flats or skeletal hillside soils in mallee woodland. SFWP; N.T., S.A., W.A.
Racemes c. 15-flowered; flowers 15–20 mm long. Calyx glabrous, teeth shorter than tube. Corolla purple; keel apex ± obtuse and obscurely lipped. Style tip straight or curved with sparse, antrorse hairs.
Fruit crescent-shaped, mostly 30–40 mm long, glabrous; style c. 9 mm long; stipe 3–7 mm long.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows on sandy flats or skeletal hillside soils in mallee woodland.
NSW subdivisions: SFWP
Other Australian states: W.A. S.A. N.T.
Threatened species: NSW BCA: Endangered
Text by J. Thompson & T. A. James
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 2 (1991)
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