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Skeleton Pea
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Skeleton Pea

Swainsona laxa

Swainsona laxa, the skeleton pea, yellow swainson-pea, yellow Darling pea, or sandhill swainsona, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to inland Australia. It is an erect, shrublike herb, often appearing leafless, sometimes with 13 to 17 broadly egg-shaped leaflets, and racemes of 15 to 20 usually yellow flowers.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 138645.